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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘multiplayer’, page 6:

C++ for Games: Performance. Allocations and Data Locality

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Abstract: “Allocations and related lack of spatial locality can be DAMN EXPENSIVE”
Quote: “During the times of Ancient Gamers (also known as times of Atari, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore64), CPUs were running at clock speed of a single-MHz (and one operation usually took several clocks). At the same time, memory run at about the speed comparable to that of CPUs.”
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Marshalling and Encodings

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Quote: “Encoded data size is especially important for Client-Server communications, and less important (within reason) for Server-to-Server ones and for locally-stored format.”
Another Quote: “On the other hand, due to being optimized for CPU operation, Flatbuffers are NOT optimized space-wise; even compared to not-so-optimal-space-wise Google Protocol Buffers, Flatbuffers can lose additional 1.5x in size”
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Network Programming: Socket Peculiarities, Threads, and Testing

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Quote: “I am not saying that this architecture is the only viable one, but it does work for TCP for sure (and performs reasonably well too)”
Another Quote: “The whole task of optimizing performance beyond, say, 20-50K packets/second per box tends to be Quite Elaborated, and involves quite a few things which are platform- and hardware-dependent.”
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UDP for games – security (encryption and DDoS protection)

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Quote: “Yes, you DO need to encrypt your UDP traffic. And no, using UDP is NOT a valid excuse to skip encryption”
Another Quote: “Personally, I prefer to think of it as of insurance – when I’m paying my premiums in hope that my money will go to waste.”
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UDP from MOG Perspective

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Quote: “you may think of UDP as of an analog of good old C: you can do pretty much everything, but it is not because the language helps you – it is rather because it doesn’t stand in the way :-)”
Another Quote: “As most of the routers (including pretty much every backbone router out there) are not configured to support multicast, it makes multicast over the public Internet hopeless :-(“
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Book “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games” is on Kickstarter!

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For better or worse, but my upcoming book “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games (from social games to MMOFPS, with stock exchanges in between)” is on Kickstarter now… “Beta” of the book (available on this very site) has been praised by quite a few senior developers from the industry (from Amaya to Zynga, with quite […]

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