[gameprogrammer] Re: variables and multithreading

Sorry, I forgot there are more languages than C++... Im using C++ and SDL, so I think I will use the SDL mutex system.

Stephen Smith escribió:
You don't say what language you are using. If you're using Java, you could write a function that accesses the data, and give it the 'synchronised' method modifier. Then the language will ensure that only one thread at a time can access it.

Roger D Vargas wrote:

Im writing a multithreaded server and I have reached the point where I have to access the array containing the players data from the main loop. Should I use some variable to mark if a record is being modified by network thread?






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