Threading is nice, but it is not used for everything. I think this is really not a good place to thread.
Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shad Muegge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:03 AM Subject: Re: Threading question > Reading through fread_string, you'll see that it uses the mud's hashed > string space, > > plast = top_string + sizeof(char *) > > then later updates the top_string pointer, > > top_string = plast > > The problem to solve is how to add two strings to this space at the same > time. By just locking the function, the flow of the multiple threads will > become just like the single thread and you won't get any benefit at all. I > haven't really thought about it much, but you could consider having a string > space for each of the threads, that gets merged together once all the > loading is completed, or maybe not merged at all, and updated the hash > search algorithm to handle multiple blocks. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: Threading question > > > > Ok another little question, I put in all the locking on things like > skills, > > spells, areas, and commands. To prevent other loading functions that needs > > those from calling them before they are needed. > > > > But when I boot the mud it well crashs nastly. And where it crashs is in > > fread_string. Which now that I think about it makes alot of sence cause > > these 3 threads would be using those functions so I guess my question is > > this. Should I lock those functions? Or is there another way I can have > them > > all work in harmony? > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > >
