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Valve's post suggests that they believe this to be the case, although they didn't explain the specific details. > We think that if this feature (or an equivale

by ufo 7y ago

Valve's post suggests that they believe this to be the case, although they didn't explain the specific details. > We think that if this feature (or an equivalent) was adopted upstream, we would achieve efficiency gains by adopting it in native massively-threaded applications such as Steam and the Source 2 engine.

rbanffy 7y ago
I got that. I intended to go for "actually useful".
- kbenson 7y ago
  Source 2 has a linux port I believe, and it's an engine that other games could (do?) use to get easy linux support for a lot of their codebase. I think that counts for actually useful. Depending on what they mean by "massively-threaded", that might cover some other popular network applications that thread to handle requests, but I'm not sure how much work they would put into a linux specific solution if it complicated their codebase.
  - mirashii 7y ago
    > (do?) Indeed. See Dota 2.
  - rbanffy 7y ago
    It occurred to me that a message passing OO language that mapped every active object (that's responding to a message) to a thread could benefit from it.