using the Quad core

[Brainsaw]

actualy doing physics in a thread require some sort of mutex itself because when the physics update a node position while smgr->drawall() is runing you will still get a wonderfull crash

That's why I'm planning to use a Event based approach. I do already have an event queue, I just need to make it thread-safe.

[Granyte]

interesting for now i'm using atomic operation on bool to lock some operation from the rendering loop and other from the physic loop depending on what the other thread is doing
it's primitive but it works if i start to need more thread i might implement it as a thread/flag manager


and i'm actualy thinking on making a 3rd thread for my game loop instead of having it in the render loop and since bullet seem thread safe to some extent

[hendu]

And I was thinking just being lazy and using OpenMP.

[Mel]

The simplest thing, as it has been said many times, is to keep all the Irrlicht related stuff in the main thread, and use the rest as you see fit.

[Granyte]

the problem is you still need to update the nodes from the other threads

[3DModelerMan]

If you use an event system then it shouldn't be too big of a problem.