[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Reimar Grabowski]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:26:05 -0400
Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a massive oversimplification. Many *modern* game engines do not
> even have the kind of loop you're thinking of.
Please tell me where I can read up about those engines without cyclic executive?
Are those engines interrupt driven or how are they working?
Where is the gain in not having a loop?
Keeping your timing consistent with just semaphores sounds like a nightmare to me and not a win.
In the end the loop is in the OS (listening for events/interrupts) no matter what you do (except using a real time OS, but I don't know any console running on one (they run BSD) and PC gaming is Windows).
I am little out of the loop (no pun intended) regarding game engines so which engines are *modern*?
Unreal 5 does still have a loop and current Unity, too, so they seem to be old fashioned (contrary to me thinking they are modern).

>> Outside the game loop you do not need such a 'high performance' anymore.
>Says who?
Mr. Common-Sense says that you can waste a few nano/milliseconds if you are outside a run and only updating (slow) user input and interface (menus).
But he's not always right and eager to hear about situations where this time cannot be spent.

R.