Re: [pygame] SOC Proposal: Networking for Pygame

["Rene Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/9/06, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/8/06, Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Latency is the other main reason to do networking in another thread.
> > If your game is going at 20fps-60fps or whatever, then it means you
> > are adding 1/20th-1/60th of a second latency to all networking every
> > frame.
> >
> All you are talking about is the latency it takes to get the packets
> in some other buffer to be read. What's the point in decreasing that
> latency if you are only going to be reading the other buffer once a
> frame? the true packet latency is still the frame rate either way.

That's a good point.  I think the networking should be able to be
separate if wanted.  With the default mode using the event queue.
Having it also separate gives these advantages:
- Best possible latency.
- Can make a headless server version.
- Allow those that don't want to use the event queue to use it.