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| July 23, 2005, 14:01 | |
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Frimkron
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| July 23, 2005, 14:46 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts 
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False.
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| August 25, 2005, 15:24 | |
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Caspah
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"Java Runtime Environment 2.0 has caused a Fatal Error"
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| August 25, 2005, 16:39 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts
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I've never witnessed that one... But one thing I will say about writing games in Java is that you have to be very careful about memory management. The garbage collector is handy and all, but once you start creating new objects in memory all over the place, it can kick in at any time and slow the performance right down. The only way to get a completely predictable, smooth performance is to cut new object creation right down to a minimum. In fact don't create any new objects in the main loop of your game unless you really need to. That's my advice. By the way Casper - did I IM you last night? I think I was getting you confused with Rincewind. It was late and I was tired 
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| August 25, 2005, 16:44 | |
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Rincewind
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Well you certainly didn't IM *me* last night.
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| August 26, 2005, 16:30 | |
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Caspah
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you IMed me this night.  of course night for me is probably morning for you. and you didnt IM me last night. or last morning. since i was at school.
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| August 26, 2005, 16:42 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts
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It was Moogle waahhahaahha
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| December 22, 2005, 01:02 | |
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Rhovanion
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Quoting Frimkron: I've never witnessed that one... and if you program with threads? then you could handle objects asynchronously? Would that be faster, or not? plz explain.But one thing I will say about writing games in Java is that you have to be very careful about memory management. The garbage collector is handy and all, but once you start creating new objects in memory all over the place, it can kick in at any time and slow the performance right down. The only way to get a completely predictable, smooth performance is to cut new object creation right down to a minimum. In fact don't create any new objects in the main loop of your game unless you really need to. That's my advice. By the way Casper - did I IM you last night? I think I was getting you confused with Rincewind. It was late and I was tired :P edit: err i didn't notice it was posted half a year ago... srry :p [Edited on December 22, 2005 by Rhovanion] ____________ |
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| December 22, 2005, 01:09 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts
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Quote: edit: err i didn't notice it was posted half a year ago... srry :p Haha don't worry about it Rhovanion - this place isn't exactly bustling. Yet.Welcome to the site! Upload your games! Erm.. that's about all that's working here at the moment Regarding your question, I'm not sure what you mean. Java has a garbage collector which runs on its own thread anyway - that's the problem really. You never know when its going to start cleaning up for you and slowing your application down. ____________ |
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| December 22, 2005, 10:33 | |
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Rhovanion
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maybe by writing your own threaded garbage collector which sets instances of your choice to "null". I dunno. Might be difficult...
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| December 22, 2005, 11:47 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts 
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Using threads wont speed it up. Switching between threads is processor intensive. The problem is you can not predict when the garbage collector is going to run, so like Frim says avoid creating objects when your game is up and running or you will quickly run out of memory or have to wait. So try to reuse the objects as much as possible.
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| December 22, 2005, 15:21 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts 
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Java is fun.
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| August 15, 2014, 13:18 | |
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Dennis
どこかにいる 2097 posts 
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Quoting PEader: Using threads wont speed it up. Switching between threads is processor intensive. The problem is you can not predict when the garbage collector is going to run, so like Frim says avoid creating objects when your game is up and running or you will quickly run out of memory or have to wait. So try to reuse the objects as much as possible.  That's why minecraft is such a heavy program.
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