Xordan's blog

This is going to be a quick update on what's happening now.

I'm investigating and trying out better ways to pass the data between threads, I'll write something more detailed once I'm successful in finding something good.

On the csparser side of things I've started writing the threaded loader. I'm writing it in a separate file to the current one, along with a new loader context which is also in its own file. I'm going to be writing it 'from scratch with some copy/paste', basically I'll be taking anything useful from the current loader (bottom node parsing and loading) and giving it some refactoring, then rewriting everything else which I don't think is usable.

My reasoning for doing this is that the current loader seems quite coupled, it has multiple ways of doing the same thing, functions which do more than the name suggests (and more than they should do, see last point), and lots of functions which I want to rename or change the return type of. I'm also hoping I can speed things up and make everything a little nicer on the eye while I'm at it. I won't have to worry about API breakage or altering the semantics of methods when I'm fixing resource sharing conflicts either.