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orlp on April 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Minecraft Set to Launch Its Own Currency

> It actually implements a generalized 3D cellular automaton framework in which each cube in the world is driven by a small Lua program

That doesn't seem scalable at all.

Dylan16807 on April 11, 2017 [–]

Cellular automatons scale great. What do you think the problem is?

And minecraft is stuck on a single sim thread, it can't even split of worldgen. Almost any threaded method could beat it.

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