Spring is running in SMP

[zerver]

Sorry, we're not quite there yet. New BA 7.13 may be error spam free, but LUA based graphics still has performance related issues.

[Poil]

Is there any spring 0.82.x MT ?

[zerver]

Yes, it is included in the installer.

[very_bad_soldier]

Sorry, we're not quite there yet. New BA 7.13 may be error spam free, but LUA based graphics still has performance related issues.

Is there anything you can do when coding a widget to avoid those problems? I guess you should only use draw functions in the DrawXY()-callins, right? Anything else?

[zerver]

I'm afraid not, it is the actual drawing that kills performance. The main reason is that LUA is single threaded. Will hopefully be fixed in some future Spring release.

[echoone]

I'm afraid not, it is the actual drawing that kills performance. The main reason is that LUA is single threaded. Will hopefully be fixed in some future Spring release.

What are the implications of your statement? Does that mean a multithreaded LUA can be included? Or that there is some other technical solution? If the later, can you expand on it a little?

Thanks.

[zerver]

What are the implications of your statement? Does that mean a multithreaded LUA can be included? Or that there is some other technical solution? If the later, can you expand on it a little?

What could be doable is a separate LUA execution environment for the rendering. However, this means difficulties in sharing data - the environments will be unaware of each others variables.

Other changes are needed as well, see my post here:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=23753

[zerver]

FYI MT currently has desync problems.

Not all games desync, but quite a few. I'm working on finding out why.

[zerver]

There will probably be a 0.82.4 release pretty soon, but for those who cannot wait, the desync fixed MT build can be found here:

http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2754

[zerver]

0.82.5 MT, hopefully with less crash:
http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2772