Game challenges are nice, they teach you
something (i wrote a game and only one person gave a crap despite it's
educational and practical value for ANY age! OK, no prob ;) so since we're all
professionals here, im more inclined towards suggesting a practical
threading model...
The threading is not
the problem... it's the transactional queuing and reporting that
is interesting... The same "game model" applies to many many applications -
waiting cabinets, post/mail-sending, delayed update synchronizations, cache
cleaning, etc...
The threading
transaction script is the following:
-- The bartending
example just used in memory to the old thinkC OOP class/event model
;)
-- i dare not say
here which was the first C compiler i used!
on bartender
customerObj
send
"MakeDrink" &&CustomerObj to me in GetQueueTime(me)
on
taskdoer
on MakeDrink
obj
get
ObjectBestCandidateDrink(obj)
if is it
empty
then
send "ask \"Drink Sir\" to" obj
put
MakeDrink(obj) into drinkObj
ServeDrink
drinkObj
StartTwoBitChatWith Obj
end
MakeDrink
-- end of
script
Now, this will
surely thread-whizz a few drinks on the bar's tabletop nicely given few clients
without "in GetQueueTime(me)" question...
But if it's friday
night and you have to serve both drinks, chips bowls, clean dishes, check drink
stock + order disminishing fast, do checks, collect and account checks, you see
that it gets quite different - and more down to earth than just a game... The
barSim game in Rev, why not?
OK, What if
even with just drink making, you get many clients more than one drink... It gets
crowded on weekends, how do you prepare?
The best
GetQueueTime() function wins no matter how many clients and drinks are thrown at
the bartender...
What if we have more
than one bartender (move the request drink script to the bar group holding
the bartender buttons... You can generalize or individualize the bartender
scripts as you wish naturally ;)
Seen the AI article
on Wired?
Cool! But hey, IT
industry is kind of sterile now and it's time to wake up the industry to
RunRev... Can RunRev do threading? No, I do have a working solution though. Of
course, no one will listen but it's part of the strategy to overturn the IT
empires with TAOO ;)
If this script is
well optimized we have a better chance at making Real time simulators or RPG/FPS
games in RunRev too.
maillist perenial
netTip:
Here's how to make
time-synchronized events in RunRev - however there's no guarantee that the
event will happen at the right time if another even is running (grrr). But with
the right queuing, we can make it work... We do have more processing power than
old mainframes PDP11 dont we?
Send "drawyourself"
to thisgraphic in 40 milliseconds
-- 40 ms = 25
FPS frames per second = video - 80 = 12 FPS is animation quality. Would a
binary-easy number work better?
OK, so now, how do
you schedule it all? And have enough "send" bandwidth?
We can make this
into a cool game too later... But the real benefits is that you can thread
anything. This also works for web site client serving btw...
Tip: while there are
polynomial ways of doing this kind of optimization, RunRev's speed of
calculation in matrices or arrays prohibits this (though it helps compared to
hypercard times ;) - There is simpler geometric way...
I've been sitting on
this one for about 9 years but it's the clustering event model in TAOO
which im proud to describe here - as i read on a sig today - information is only
of value if it is shared... How true...
Any Game Theory
adepts in the list?
cheers from
Lulucity
Xavier
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