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[o_O[WTFace]]

I dont mean to re-rail this thread but don't forget to make a static dorfwash, run DFCleanmap and turn off temperature.  Alot of people think contaminants are a huge source of lag, especially for old forts. 

[Hateweaver]

Sorry - didn't mean to re-open old threads on multi-threading a sim.  It is something I've worked with for a long time and it really facinates me.  It is hard to find communities of peeps that also want to talk about it.  I was on a team (Ensemble Studios) that spent a lot of time on this - the last iteration being Halo Wars.  And in the end - we weren't able the thread the sim in a way that consitantly brought the frame rate up for the game as whole.

It is a tough problem... and I love chewing on tough problems.

[malroth]

I think a lot of cup cycles could be saved if instead updating and recalculating the path every step, the dwarves calculated one single path at the start of their trip,  and would stick to it untill they hit some kind of obstacle and only recalculated once a couple of steps go by with their next target square blocked.

[NW_Kohaku]

I think a lot of cup cycles could be saved if instead updating and recalculating the path every step, the dwarves calculated one single path at the start of their trip,  and would stick to it untill they hit some kind of obstacle and only recalculated once a couple of steps go by with their next target square blocked.

This is what they do already.

[profit]

Multi threading is terrible thing. And in DF... It is enough to say that adding multi threading to existing program will result in many, many, many new bugs.

Multithreading is a wonderful thing.   I use threads and fibers quite extensively in programs where the tasks do not cause a race condition or a deadlock.

if you know how to use them, they are one of the best ways of keeping a program responsive, especially with multiple cores.

Come to think of it, I am not sure I could even program without them anymore... And make any program with a decent user experience.

* can always tell the programs that do not use them.. The user interface locks up at every computation.

* no I am really not that good at programming it is just something everyone has to know how to do when they program anymore.... I am still backward enough I need to use the /CLR to get mine to compile as I don't know the new structures yet.

[Kogut]

It is terrible to introduce into existing program, to make things clear.

[Nekudotayim]

New CPUs aren't going to get better fruequency on a single core and this games keeps getting enhanced. You have to go multi-threaded, if you want or not.