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I want to create online games and focus on the performance from the beginning.

I searched on the internet, but didn't find any an particular answer concerning the design level or development level aspect, such as

  • Design Patterns,

  • Protocols,

  • Techniques,

  • Data transfer(games state) ,

  • Formats(JSON/serialization)

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which are crucial to create high performance online games can most of the articles are talking about hardware consideration, but you know that is not what I am looking for.

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Your question is too broad. I think you need to narrow and pick performance in a particular area, i.e. latency vs. rendering vs. whatever. – ashes999 Oct 27 '11 at 14:20
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Why do people USE random UPPER CASE to get POINTS across, you look like a serial killer sending notes to the police =P The reason you don't find anything specific is because ALL games are MADE with performance in mind. it's like trying to ask a fish about water. – Patrick Hughes Oct 27 '11 at 15:23
Edited. But I also think this is too broad a question. – Josh Petrie Oct 27 '11 at 15:35
"Why do people USE random UPPER CASE to get POINTS across" where.. what... no idea; self assumption... "because ALL games are MADE with performance in mind" So what they do when they have "performance" in mind and that is the Question... – static void main Oct 27 '11 at 19:13
Your edit doesn't really make the question any less broad. Try to ask specific, directed questions about an actual problem rather than questions where you could expect a litany of answers. – Josh Petrie Nov 1 '11 at 15:26

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I'm a chinese programmer.We usually transfer Packet like this:
Length,Type,Data
and Length is short in C/C++,Type short,Data is raw string(binary data). We did not serialize anything but just put the C/C++ struct into the Data,because doing this can get a good performance.
and,if you want to serialize your object into Packet,you should try protocol buffer or thrift.They are scalable and high performance.

And,performance is a big topic.The basic idea is having performance problem,you should get the Hot Code,and fix them.

I am takling with you about the same thing, right?

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