Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++
74 points by HeliumHydride
by ofrzeta
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"I had heard the rumors that C++ was a scary language filled with footguns and segmentation faults, but I had never given it a fair chance myself" - props for this. There's too much hearsay in software engineering.
It seems like the thread_local CacheIndex only determines which cache to use, but it doesn't actually guarantee thread safety for concurrent access to the HashLifeCache itself. What would be a good solution for this?
Should I use a mutex for each cache instance?
As a beginner developer, my guess is that the original author assumes data races won't occur based on the execution timing. However, I'm really not sure if that assumption is actually correct/safe.
by hiroakiaizawa
1 subcomments
Interesting approach.
I like that the implementation focuses on scalability rather than only visualization.
by classified
0 subcomment
Fricking cool, I love it.
by ontouchstart
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This would be a cool template project to learn C++ without the pollution of LLM slop.
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