Timothy Lochner

I've been thinking about this tweet a lot over the past 5 days. Here's the thing -- @rob_brink and I wrote an engine that does exactly what (a) describes, and automates synchronization and guarantees thread safety. It's pure joy to work in. https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1103023006442348544 …

Each job can be considered "single threaded" which takes away the MT headaches. Also encourages DoD. I can't even list all the good things it does for me, because it'd take too long.

The best part yet, it can totally run on a single thread. So it scales from SUPER low end hardware like certain embedded systems all the way up to 64+ core beasts.

We even use the automatic synchronization to have threadsafe access to external APIs that are not themselves threadsafe. If you ask me, completely jobified engines are the future of game engines, if not the future of computing.

Cloud computing is a multi-billion dollar industry. How many servers are not running at max capacity? How many companies are paying for compute power they don't use because of poor core usage?