[racket-dev] [racket] Stuttering problems with big-bang

I don't think so no. But we could try.

His code is linked in the dirt post in the thread.

On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

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> Truth in advertising:
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> big-bang skips frames in certain circumstances -- when handlers take too
> long -- so if the GC kicks in when a handler runs, it is possible that the
> eventual result is a skip.
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> Robby: do you think Jack's program would benefit from a forced gc before
> big-bang runs? (I can't find Jack's code.)
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> -- Matthias
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> On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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> Hi Jack: the entire system freezes when the GC happens and the numbers you
> report match up with what I'd expect to be very annoying stuttering. (And
> just for the record, it doesn't skip frames -- it just doesn't update
> anything or draw any new frames during the GC.)
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> Can you tell us more about your machine? What OS and what processor?
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> Robby
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> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Jack Firth <the.game.creator6 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'the.game.creator6 at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> I started up the program from the command line with the garbage
>> collection debugging information, and saw some interesting stuff once the
>> program was up and running. Every second or so I'd see a very very slight
>> stutter, which would be followed by a garbage collection lasting either
>> 16ms or 15ms, slightly longer stutters would report as GCs of 31ms, and
>> long freezing stutters would be around 109ms. I think perhaps big-bang is
>> doing something where it's skipping a frame or two as a result of some sort
>> of garbage collection. All the on-tick etc. events are performed for the
>> frame, it just doesn't seem to be drawn. I can't fathom what's going on
>> here.
>>
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