Comment by paraknight
5 years ago
This was literally the topic of my PhD thesis and it is absolutely not trivial. It's one of those things where it's easy to think it's simple from the outside, so I'm thinking naive over scam too (I was there a decade ago)
I once thought about how to make Minecraft multithreaded. There is no way its going to happen without a from scratch redesign and a massive increase in code complexity.