> My example being a toy software rendering engine that is utilized by several concurrent clients. I asked myself "What would happen if I just ran GC right befo

> My example being a toy software rendering engine that is utilized by several concurrent clients. I asked myself "What would happen if I just ran GC right before every single frame"? Turns out, for reasonable scene sizes, the maximum amount of time the GC pause lasted was <5ms, producing a perfect result for my use case. Without intentionally calling GC, I would sometimes see pauses upwards of 3-4 seconds, which clearly has a severe impact on user experience for this type of application. Oberon, if I'm not mistaken, had stupidly simple GC that simply run between every two user interactions. That way you wouldn't notice pauses simply because your fingers move way slower than bytes in memory.