Multithreading

[dobrakmato]

Hey guys!

Since Sponge’s target is Minecraft 1.8+ and 1.8 introduced multithreading on some parts of code I’m wondering about multithreading support.

Will that be possible? So we will not have to type something like XYZ.scheduleSyncTask() each time, we want to access entities or blocks.

[cartman2000]

Well on the news post for 1.8 it said that they multithreaded the client side renderer, but it doesn’t say that they did the same for the servers.

https://mojang.com/2014/08/minecraft-1-8-pre-release-the-bountiful-update/

@Mojang

These changes consist of both new features, and large game structure changes such as replacing the hard-coded “block renderer” with a system that is able to read block shapes from data files, or performance enhancements such as multi-threading the client-side chunk rendering. We hope you will enjoy it!

[IDragonfire]

duplication of:

Formal threading model for the API

The MC server has basically a single “main” thread and lots of other minor threads. Almost all events occur on the main thread (except those that don’t) and similarly almost all methods in the API had to be called from the main thread (again except those that didn’t). In future versions, worlds might be handled on their own thread. Glowstone already does this and there has been suggestions that MC might go that way too. If we say that calling any API method from inside an event handler is al…