Re: Dealing with multi-processor or multi-core

[Fargo Holiday <fargo at rpgportland dot com>]

Giovanni wrote:
> But even on a single processor, you would see a tremendous gain if the 
> required process is doing stuff like a downloader helper app. The helper 
> app would continue to download while the master app would remain highly 
> responsive. Would that be right?
> 
> Giovanni
> ----------------------

There was a sort of proto-game I wrote last year, for Windows, that used 
the multi-process approach. I ran into trouble processing inputs from 
the mouse and keyboard within the main app, due to having a thread's 
priority jacked way high up to handle the drawing. So I overlaid a 
transparent window that processed inputs, using an ipcsocket within my 
crackhead thread. It worked very well overall, though I haven't gone 
much further with it.
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