#multithreading — Public Fediverse posts

@molko is:
- Writing an ECS (ugh),
- Global Entity ID counter increments under A LOCK (WHAT?!).

"I might create new entities on a new thread."
...*WHAT?*

IT DOESN'T EVEN RETURN MULTIPLE IDs LIKE `glGenBuffers()`.
It locks and outputs an entity ONCE per lock. ONCE PER LOCK!

...

At this point, if it's not "dum-dum C code",
I barely want to touch it anymore-

#CSharp #ECS #GameDev #LowLevel #LowLevelDev #DotNet #OOP #Multithreading #Performance #Programming #C #CPP #CPlusPlus

@molko is:
- Writing an ECS (ugh),
- Global Entity ID counter increments under A LOCK (WHAT?!).

"I might create new entities on a new thread."
...*WHAT?*

IT DOESN'T EVEN RETURN MULTIPLE IDs LIKE `glGenBuffers()`.
It locks and outputs an entity ONCE per lock. ONCE PER LOCK!

...

At this point, if it's not "dum-dum C code",
I barely want to touch it anymore-

#CSharp #ECS #GameDev #LowLevel #LowLevelDev #DotNet #OOP #Multithreading #Performance #Programming #C #CPP #CPlusPlus

@molko is:
- Writing an ECS (ugh),
- Global Entity ID counter increments under A LOCK (WHAT?!).

"I might create new entities on a new thread."
...*WHAT?*

IT DOESN'T EVEN RETURN MULTIPLE IDs LIKE `glGenBuffers()`.
It locks and outputs an entity ONCE per lock. ONCE PER LOCK!

...

At this point, if it's not "dum-dum C code",
I barely want to touch it anymore-

#CSharp #ECS #GameDev #LowLevel #LowLevelDev #DotNet #OOP #Multithreading #Performance #Programming #C #CPP #CPlusPlus