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====== Threading the server ======

===== Plans/Ideas =====

  * Per-map threads and per-player threads

  * Mutex locks in players, and in 'map queues'.

    * 'map queues' are queues of things for a map thread to do, that it is
 told to do by other maps.

  * One map thread when wanting to do something such as teleport an object
 to another map, get a lock on the map's queue and put it in a queue of th
ings for ther other map thread to do in it's next tick.

  * In order to avoid all chance of deadlock, do this when processing the 
queue of things other threads told the thread to do:

    - Lock it's queue

    - Copy it's queue and clear the origional

    - Unlock it's queue

    - Process the copy of the queue.

    * Otherwise, there is a small chance that two processing queues at the
 same time might want to lock eachother to add to the list.





===== Issues to watch out for =====

  * Have to be careful to avoid deadlock circumstances.



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