Since the topic of games and GC is a big one, maybe it is interesting
to read about how Blue Byte decided to make Might & Magic Heroes Online in Flash and their opinion from the point of view of a C++ AAA studio on the whole development experience.

The interview,
http://www.makinggames.biz/features/innovating-with-flash,5110.html

The game for those that don't know it,
http://clb.heroes-online.com/en-US


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Paulo

On Sunday, 19 October 2014 at 21:16:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Since the topic of games and GC is a big one, maybe it is interesting
> to read about how Blue Byte decided to make Might & Magic Heroes Online in Flash and their opinion from the point of view of a C++ AAA studio on the whole development experience.

The only real GC-related thing coming out of this seems to be the usual one: Java GC is fast enough for a MMO backend, probably just because it's Java.
The new extra lesson is that anything can work just fine for a Hardware-Accelerated frontend :P

On Monday, 20 October 2014 at 00:28:29 UTC, francesco cattoglio wrote:
> The new extra lesson is that anything can work just fine for a Hardware-Accelerated frontend :P

Sure, you can do that in javascript too, but Flash Player uses deferred reference counting with weak pointers and gc to collect cycles.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/learning/as3-fundamentals/garbage-collection.html