[ivan.velhoParticipant]

There is no problem:

Namespace std.graphics

#rem monkeydoc Pixmaps allow you to store and manipulate rectangular blocks of pixel data.

A pixmap contains a block of memory used to store a rectangular array of pixels.

#end
Class Pixmap

#rem monkeydoc @hidden
#end
Field OnDiscarded:Void()

#rem monkeydoc Creates a new pixmap.

@param width The width of the pixmap in pixels.

@param height The height of the pixmap in pixels.

@param format The pixmap format.

@param data A pointer to the pixmap data.

@param pitch The pitch of the data.

#end
Method New( width:Int,height:Int,format:PixelFormat=PixelFormat.RGBA32 )

Local depth:=PixelFormatDepth( format )
Local pitch:=width*depth
Local data:=Cast<UByte Ptr>( libc.malloc( pitch*height ) )

_width=width
_height=height
_format=format
_depth=depth
_data=data
_pitch=pitch
OnDiscarded=Lambda()
libc.free( data )
End
End

 

Pixmap calls libc.free(data)

I believe it is not in garbage collector at all.

I believe Mark used the approach from libgdx (LWJGL)and allocate and delete resources out of garbage collector, through native method.

[ivan.velhoParticipant]

I think I could use another approach to the problem.

I can use  SDL/libc to allocate SDL pixmaps.

These are the major resources , I must study this solution . I believe monkey2 is based on SDL and the low level SDL/libc were provided to give a low level control.

I think I must study the integration and figure out how to do this .

Thanks guys for the help.

[ivan.velhoParticipant]

The limitation of this method is the pool must contain only objects of the same class.
You cannot do up cast as down cast.

[ivan.velhoParticipant]

My problem is free memory in time the destruction method is called, same problem every garbage collector has.
But if you want to be faster than a constructor method, I suggest you to create a pool of objects with a recycle method, this method must do the same as a constructor but it will do on an allocated object.
This is the reason you can’t be faster with any other strategy.

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