[HippoBaro]

Sure, you can. But then you need to manage when GC triggers. Because if you don't, you'll drop frames. And then the real choice is between C++ where there is (little) extra work getting RAII correct vs GC languages where you need to keep preventing GC up to a point where it's okay to freeze the universe.

[ulber]

A clever approach for VR that was used in Downward Spiral [1] (a Unity game) is to add a periodic eye blinking effect and trigger the GC on a black screen.

[1] http://www.3rdeyestudios.fi/downward-spiral-horus-station/

[_lbaq]

There are plenty of predictable garbage collectors now days, Shenandoah for example, Azul's C4 implementation is completly pause-less and concurrent. ZGC provides very low pause times (1 ms)