Will a polled event system cause lag for a server?
- by Milo
I'm using a library called ENet. It is a reliable UDP library.
The way it works is a polled event system like this:
ENetEvent event;
/* Wait up to 1000 milliseconds for an event. */
while (enet_host_service (client, & event, 1000) > 0)
{
switch (event.type)
{
case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_CONNECT:
printf ("A new client connected from %x:%u.\n",
event.peer -> address.host,
event.peer -> address.port);
/* Store any relevant client information here. */
event.peer -> data = "Client information";
break;
case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_RECEIVE:
printf ("A packet of length %u containing %s was received from %s on channel %u.\n",
event.packet -> dataLength,
event.packet -> data,
event.peer -> data,
event.channelID);
/* Clean up the packet now that we're done using it. */
enet_packet_destroy (event.packet);
break;
case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_DISCONNECT:
printf ("%s disconected.\n", event.peer -> data);
/* Reset the peer's client information. */
event.peer -> data = NULL;
}
}
It waits up to 1000 milliseconds for an event. If I'm hosting say 75 event driven card games and a lobby on the same thread as this code, will it cause any problems.
If my understanding is correct, the process will simply sleep until there is an event, when there is one, it will process the event then come back here where potentially 5 or so events have queued up since so enet_host_services would return right away and not cause lag.
I have been advised not to use multiple threads, will that be alright like this?
Thanks
