Thread: RuneSource 317

Originally Posted by Sanity

Thanks for clearing that up, because the other person who replied saying there was no hope for me (lol). I'm just curious how this differs from something like shard (which is winterlove with nio basically). Of course shard has more things implemented and takes a more OOP approach, but yeah. I guess another major difference is that this using 1 thread for everything whereas shard uses multiple. Also, why in your visualVM picture you posted does it say you have 11 threads running when you said yourself it's single threaded?

Appreciate the answers

Some of those cannot be controlled, they're created by the JVM I think anyway:


After naming the only thread created you can see from the following picture the others are created by the JVM:

Code:

new Thread(getSingleton(), "Main Server Thread").start();

Originally Posted by F0rn

I'm also curious about this. You said yourself this doesn't scale linearly.

By that, I mean the implementation of player updating. In RuneScape, player updating must maintain a list of "local" players. Currently in RuneSource (and most other standard run-of-the-mill servers) how we maintain that list is that we loop through all of the players (for each player) and run a distance check on each cycle. Looping through all the players for every player is an O(n^2) operation which scales quadratically instead of linearly. I've been thinking of using a tile/region system instead of looping for RuneSource but that would introduce complication that I'm not sure is worth it (remember that the idea of RuneSource is to keep it as simple as possible).

I intend of being the master of this source when it's released

I shall not work on anything till this is released

gj

Multiplayer updating now works.

Not in support of doing "winterlove style code" (as its basically giving the lazy people what they want, a better source with no effort required), but good luck nonetheless. .

Originally Posted by Warped Reality

Why would you bother using I/O... ?

He is using New IO (nio) though, so its all good.