Ich reiche eine Prfung..
Published February 11, 2009
It's that time of the year again! Mid-February to Mid-March is always ripe with midterms, which means two things: Reading Week and studying. I think that Reading Week is more well-known in the US as "Spring Break". Whatever. [grin]
Tomorrow is my Intermediate German midterm, which I have been furiously cramming vocabulary into my head for for the last little while. I feel comfortable with the material we've covered though, so it should be just fine.
Next week is my Reading Week, which means a whole week's worth of time to study and otherwise spend time. I only have two midterms post Reading Week, so it won't be too intense. That means plenty of time for adventures and, of course, Skirmish Online development.
![](http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~swhitmor/skirmish/skirm_shrap.png)
The last couple of weeks of development have been spent implementing concurrency into the game. More specifically, multi-threading the networking portions of the game. I had noted that there were occasional slowdowns in gameplay due to some (unavoidable) blocking in the UDP sockets. This was a big problem for people on lower-end hardware who got poor framerates already. We had already been studying threading and mutual exclusion techniques in my Operating Systems class this term, so I felt sufficiently knowledgeable to tackle the task.
I'd like to talk about the problems and traps I adventured through in my next post, since I need some precious sleep for tomorrow's midterm. [smile]
Gute Nacht, Leute.