Trying not to shoehorn coroutines where they don't...
# coroutiness
sreich
03/24/2017, 4:41 PMTrying not to shoehorn coroutines where they don't fit well (especially since I'm unfamiliar with them)
Do coroutines sound like a good fit for that?
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groostav
03/25/2017, 7:40 PMThis... Its really more about who is doing the job of locating resources to execute your world setup. The problem coroutines were designed to solve is one of thread dispatching; Coroutines allow you to call blocking API's without actually blocking your thread idiomatically. So theres a win on performance --its much easier to use one thread to do lots of things since things are suspending instead of blocking, and theres a win on expressibility --code that normally uses callbacks now looks like a simple serially executing block
groostav
03/25/2017, 7:41 PMRegarding the first point, performance of coroutines, i think this might be important for your server, in a multiplayer setting. Although at that point you probably want to look at some kind of actor system --which might be considered a big-brother scheme to co-routines
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