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Author Topic: Feature request: Bespoke Garbage Collection  (Read 404 times)

jecowa

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Feature request: Bespoke Garbage Collection
« on: October 17, 2024, 02:40:01 am »
You know you want it.
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FantasticDorf

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Re: Feature request: Bespoke Garbage Collection
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2024, 04:35:38 am »
Yes but i don't know what i want.  :D

What does garbage refer to in this context? Walking along throwing body parts in a wheelbarrow or just randomly dropped items to be dumped into a a bridge compactor?
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jecowa

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Re: Feature request: Bespoke Garbage Collection
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2024, 07:49:52 am »
In computer science, garbage collection is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is called garbage.

It could possibly fix some bugs and maybe prevent some new ones in the future. Putnam has mentioned bespoke garbage collection a couple times as a dream project.
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Re: Feature request: Bespoke Garbage Collection
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2024, 03:18:01 pm »
Why doesn't properly dereferencing the data already resolve the bugs?

I've seen issues with dfhack routines not removing all references within the DF data structure, and there were/are DF problems with raiding dwarfs and their equipment or squad positions, but in those cases the problem is that not all the references were removed/adjusted.

Garbage collection seems unnecessary since the garbage requires little memory but garbage collection costs CPU cycles.
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