mbruker/Cockatrice — comment on commit 50e53fbe5395ef698d1ca78ac6308533dd3c6c15
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After it's threaded, won't the latency only be an issue for the person connecting? <-- Yes, but it might take some time to get there. There's a lot of mutex deadlocks in the current code that need to be resolved first. If we have a local database on each server, threading may be superfluous (or even disadvantageous depending on the overhead, not sure) as there are not a lot of inherently slow calls in the server.
Given that it's not yet, isn't that a vector for DDoS attacks? <-- Probably. Another reason to use a local database. We're using a database on another server right now, but I hope to change that soon.