Re: [Arianne-devel] Strangled by threads

[Euan M. <lu...@co...>]

On 28 Oct 2002, at 17:32, Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin wrote:
> >Hm.. now what does this mean for us?
> >
> >Please convert this into a design concept for the Arianne threading /
> >network code so we know what needs changing, and please write some
> >example code that shows how you would do it inside Arianne. Some
> >questions I need answered is:
> >
> >1. Is it better than the current code
> >2. Will it actually work in code and does it fit with the current
> >Arianne code
> >3. Can you get it to compile inside Arianne
> 
> Well, I pointed this with my redesign and none cares...

Of the 29 contributors now on the project, only 2 or three were 
coders involved on the project when this design decision was last 
discussed.

Perhaps no-one cared then - although both Skyflash and you seem 
to have cared - but that is /not/ the same as saying no-one cares 
now.

> Arianne actually use around 7 threads that are really too much.
> I redesigned to use only 2 threads ( one network and one game ) and after a 
> few tune ups and after a prototype I set the number of threads on:
> - N Thread (Net Read)
> - 1 Thread (Net Write)
> - 1 Thread (Game Messages)
> - 1 Thread (Game Engine)
> 
> Which means that on the simplest case we would have 4 threads.
> 
> Reply:
> 1. Yes
> 2. Not at all, major recode needed.
> 3. No

This seems a reasonable high-level design to me - but I am not a 
coder in C++.

Does anyone have any reasons to approach it differently, or 
suggested alternative approaches?
Cheers,
    Euan
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