Networking & Jobs

While the C# Job system is very powerful, it is not the solution to every networking problem.

Fire & Forget is a good rule of thumb when it comes to networking & Jobs.

  • If you can fire up a computation and forget about it, then it’s a good idea to use a Job.

  • If you need the computation’s result in the main thread, or if the computation is time critical, then think twice before using a Job.

For example:

  • The 10k Example’s MonsterMovementSystem is a great use case for a Job. We simply move all monsters in a Job without caring about the result.

  • The NetworkServerSystem would be a bad example for a Job because we need the result in the main thread to call NetworkServerSystem.Send() from the main thread.

Most of DOTSNET is bursted & single threaded. Make it work, then make it fast.

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