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Should You Use Object Pooling? (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by Toda@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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[–] Redkey@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Object pooling is an absolute necessity for performance in modern environments that remove all manual memory management in favour of automatic garbage collection. And it's still good practice to reuse memory when you do have some manual control.

Not many things will slow your program down (or make a garbage collector blow up) as effectively as alternately freeing and requesting tiny chunks of memory from the OS thousands of times a second.