Minecraft Runs on One Thread Because Nobody Wrote It for Two
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Discussion of the blog article Minecraft Runs on One Thread Because Nobody Wrote It for Two.
Every entity, every block update, every redstone pulse — one thread, twenty times a second, 50 milliseconds a pass. Folia's answer is to stop sharing the kitchen. Here is the tick budget and the ownership rules, read from the PaperMC source.
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