Concurrent Programming in the Design of a 3D Game Engine
The GameCareerGuide.com site published an article by Jarret Tierney about Concurrent Programming in the Design of a 3D Game Engine (not specifically about concurrency in the XNA FX/.NET world but still a Good Read™).
We have taken an in depth look at what concurrency means and both its benefits and issues. While concurrency may still not be frequently used in general purpose software, the use of multi-threaded programming in the gaming industry has sky-rocketed because of multi-core processors and game consoles like the Playstation 3. Designing a concurrent game engine is a complicated task that challenges programmers to think about how programs run in a different way.
Article : Multi-threading your XNA
by Catalin Zima
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. A Look at Multithreading Primitives
3. Multithreading Update/Draw
4. Example: Balls
5. Conclusions
6. Downloads
7. References