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JobHandle atomicity and default value.

Discussion in 'Entity Component System' started by OswaldHurlem, Feb 13, 2018.

  1. OswaldHurlem

    OswaldHurlem

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    I have a JobHandle field and want to denote it as not corresponding to any existent job. What's the preferred semantic for this? default(JobHandle)? Also, is JobHandle atomic?
     
    OswaldHurlem, Feb 13, 2018
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  2. Joachim_Ante

    Joachim_Ante

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    default(JobHandle) or new JobHandle() both works fine. It is a struct so initializes it to zeros.

    JobHandle struct itself is not atomic, and I dont know of any situation where that would be useful.
     
    Joachim_Ante, Feb 13, 2018
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  3. OswaldHurlem

    OswaldHurlem

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    It would be useful if I wanted to schedule a job off the main thread (which I see is unsupported, fair enough).
     
    OswaldHurlem, Feb 14, 2018
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