At 10:12 AM 6/17/2005, Brian Akins wrote: >>Adding an indexed list of 'counts' would be >>very lightweight, and one atomic increment and decrement per state >>change. This would probably be more efficient than walking the >>entire list. > >Sounds good. Of course, when changing from on state to another you would >always have to decrement the previous state and increment the new one. The >way the core seems to be now, that would require some careful examination of >the code to ensure all the state changes were covered.
In that exact order :) Much better to 'under report' a given state, and consider that under reporting (if you sum during an update) to be a product of state changes. I think ++, -- would be much more misleading, since the server would be taking more actions than could possibly occur at once. Bill
