vortxGE : Threads

After reading lots of tech papers/blogs on C++11 threads I redesigned the way the engine handles threading.

Developers can now change threads manually per Scene, each pipeline : Move, Optimise are now batch threaded for better performance. after lots of testing this approch seems to work better under heavy load and being scalable its my new method of choice.

Here is some code from the engine that creates threads based on nodes.

void lsNode::MoveThread( lsScene* scn, lsOpenGL* opengl, double delta )
{
#ifdef VORTX_DEBUG_NODES
    cout << "lsNode::MoveThred() ********************************" << endl;
#endif
    
    vector<thread> th;
    lsNode *ptr;
    int threads = 1;
    int tc = 0;
    
    // Threads
    if( scn )
    {
        threads = scn->getThreads();
    } else
    {
        threads = thread::hardware_concurrency() * 2;
    }
    
    // cycle through child and its next nodes
    ptr = getNode_list();
    while( ptr )
    {
        // Add thread
        th.push_back( thread( &lsNode::Move, ptr, scn, opengl, delta ) );
        tc++;
        
        // check our thread count
        if(( tc >= threads )||( ptr->getNext_node() == NULL ))
        {
#ifdef VORTX_DEBUG_NODETHREADS
            // debug
            cout << "lsNode::MoveThread - Thread count : " << tc << endl;
#endif
            // Join and wait
            for( auto &t : th )
            {
                t.join();
            }
            // clean up
            th.clear();
            tc = 0;
        }
        ptr = ptr->getNext_node();
    }
    
    // pass it on
    if( getNode_list() ) getNode_list()->MoveThread( scn, opengl, delta );
    if( getNext_node() ) getNext_node()->MoveThread( scn, opengl, delta );
}