Post: #1

Guys, the Sphere runs in just one big process?
If yes, why don't explore parallelism (using Threads)? Or even simulate the parallelism, with context switching, for machines that do not have a multiprocessor or multi-core system.

For example, in the save we could have 5 threads, working at the same time and with that the possibility to decrease the save period.
With thread would be responsible for each file: spheredata, spheremultis, spherestatics, sphreworld and spherechars.

Here some links about Threads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...s.85).aspx
http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/...hreads.pdf

Post: #2

(10-01-2014 11:08 PM)Staff_Stanic Wrote:  Guys, the Sphere runs in just one big process?
If yes, why don't explore parallelism (using Threads)? Or even simulate the parallelism, with context switching, for machines that do not have a multiprocessor or multi-core system.

For example, in the save we could have 5 threads, working at the same time and with that the possibility to decrease the save period.
With thread would be responsible for each file: spheredata, spheremultis, spherestatics, sphreworld and spherechars.

Here some links about Threads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...s.85).aspx
http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/...hreads.pdf

Feeh and XuN have or had a plan to introducd this on sphere but it's very complex and the things can break the stability.

Feeh knows more and can explain better what is the difficults.

Post: #3

Would be amazing to have a multi-threading sphere emulator also working at 64-bits!!