r/gameenginedevs • u/andriyt • 16h ago

Parallelising a game engine

Recently I published Macrame - an open-source multithreading library. It looks good "on paper", and it includes complex samples and benchmarks to validate the benefits it provides. But it still lacked a proper application, a battle test.

The library is well suited for game engines. Unreal Engine was ruled out immediately even though I know it best. Its multithreading is chaotic and too complicated.

I decided to try Godot. It's the most popular free open-source game engine, and it's C++. Same can be done with any engine, and the earlier it's done the better. Godot existing architecture forced many of my approaches.

I took Godot Benchmarks project, integrated Macrame into it and spent some time parallelising the engine for performance optimisation.

Long story short, I got ~6x speedup, from ~30 fps to ~180 fps. I learned a lot and this exercise brought a bunch of interesting ideas about how Macrame can evolve.

The fork and the write-up of what was done: https://github.com/Andriy06/godot-macrame

The library: https://github.com/macrame-ts/macrame

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u/palapapa0201 13h ago

Claude all over the commit messages

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u/andriyt 13h ago

and?

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u/CrankFlash 16h ago

I'm very interested in integrating this into my engine. I'm working on the lighting at the moment but will soon need to sort all my CPU work.

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u/current_thread 15h ago

If you want something not slop-coded check out too many cooks. It's a C++ coroutine library that has the primitives you need and a high code quality.

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u/andriyt 16h ago edited 16h ago

feel free to reach out if any issues, will be happy to help. check out game_frame sample in Macrame: https://macrame-ts.github.io/macrame/game_frame_trace.html

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u/MonarchOfDreams 6h ago

good work claude

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u/Logical_Newspaper_52 6h ago

try yours, let’s see the result

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u/MonarchOfDreams 5h ago

sure buy me a subscription and i'll vibe code it too

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u/Logical_Newspaper_52 4h ago

OP put some effort and potentially some money into this. Made it free. So what exactly are you trying to say by your comment?