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Re:Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released by mordocai on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:58AM (#10663685)
To be fair, from what I understand the code was written in such a way that a very large portion of it would have to be rewritten in order for DF to be multi threaded. It's a shame it wasn't designed with multi threading as an idea in the first place, but I don't think multi core was a big thing back then.
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Re:Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released by dpeck on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @02:39PM (#10665281)
Somewhat true, though first release was 2006 and it was pretty clear everything was going multi-core by then.

But regardless, its their pool and they choose how they want to operate it. We're fortunate that they share it with everyone because it is a very cool project, but that doesn't mean we can't take note that it falls under the weight of itself fairly quickly in practice.

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Re:Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released by bjz_ on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:27PM (#10665964)
They weren't really professional programmers though, from what I gather? Tarn was a professional mathematician. And the code base was started earlier than 2006.
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