On 23 March 2013 21:02, Jacob Nevins <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't really been closely following the introduction of threads and > concurrency into Freeciv, although I've been dimly aware that it's > happening.
Slowly, but unreliably. > However, it seems likely that there are some basics that I (and every > other developer) ought to know, such as functions and data structures in > common code that need to be kept thread-safe. That's quite a moving target. At the moment almost nothing in game logic is thread safe. The only shared resource between metaserver thread and other threads is logging, which is protected by mutex. The little functionality that threaded AI currently has in separete thread is quite a hack at the moment, relying on the fact that map information is never deleted mid-game (it may change unexpectedly throwing AI a bit off, but that should be rare and not very serious problem) > Any clues? Does doc/HACKING need an update for this? Or CodingStyle? To mention that one should at least strive for thread-safety. - ML _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
