alt Hacker NewsOn the one hand, better GC is better but on the other, it doesn't matter all that much.
You tend to want zero per frame allocation as it is and that would probably not change.
As long as your less frequent garbage doesn't overtake the incremental GC, that's not really an issue either. If it's working incrementally as intended stutter shouldn't be an issue.
In a game there's no endless benefit from raw GC throughput like you might see on a server instance that could always push more requests per second.
The entire point of the incremental GC is to preserve frame latency budget at the expense of raw throughput. If you can guarantee <16ms frames, I'll work with whatever you can give me.
If your game is allocating so quickly that the incremental GC can't keep up, I would argue that solving this with a "faster" GC is just taking you further into hell.