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Re:Show HN: Redstone, a distributed Minecraft server that ru... by loeg on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:47PM (#5458813)
The network stuff is, yeah. But presumably you want your minecraft world to be durable, which means hitting disk. And you don't want your network stuff blocked behind that.
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Re:Show HN: Redstone, a distributed Minecraft server that ru... by kayoone on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:59PM (#5458850)
ok makes sense but i wouldnt write every change to the disk anyway. The server state can well be kept inside memory and only be saved once in a while, but nevertheless doing that in a different thread would make sense.
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