Hello everyone! I have only just started looking into Nakama and I like very much what I have seen so far! I have two questions about designing match loop logic: the documentation says for all three server-framework options that multithreading is not supported (and in the case of Go that goroutine…

@yrucrem This is an interesting question, and I’ll address your points in reverse as that’s easier: For point (2) every match handler, there is a dedicated goroutine (think green thread rather than OS thread) that drives it. Each of these goroutine is responsible for only one match at a time, they …

Long running tasks in Match-Loops

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gruset February 19, 2023, 6:25am 2

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