What is being garbage collected?

[willmotil]

It’s probably the mouse and keyboard code.

Conversion of numerical text into numbers which is a c# thing itself can be a culprit too, though that’s solvable.

No Garbage Text ( MgStringBuilder )

This is all the little fixes and changes made since last year to my stringbuilder wrapper class. Numbers converted to strings in c# create garbage that builds up and can create excessive garbage collections. I created this class after finding out that this can often be the number one cause of high frequency’s of garbage collections. The class itself basically serves as a wrapper around stringbuilder to intercept the numerical appends and decode them to text without creating garbage. It can stil…

These are the primary things that create garbage in mg internally. Unfortunately you can’t do anything about the keyboard mouse as i think this is coming from the librarys mg depends on.

Anytime you call new you actually are creating garbage however its the collections of garbage that causes stutters.

// very bad
var t = new T(0);
for(int i = 0; i  < 100; i++)
{
t = new T(i);
t.Draw();
}

// much more preferable.
var t = new T();
for(int i = 0; i  < 100; i++)
{
t.x = i;
t.Draw();
}