Talk:Reference Variables

How are reference variables stored internally. I'm having issues reliably accessing my reference variables when there get to be more than 16 user created ones in a cell. I get correct behaviour sometimes but not all the time. I can provide an ESP and simple instructions to replicate the problem. It is possible it is my code however which is why I would like to try and eliminate as many issues as possible, since you certainly don't have time to be debugging my scripts.

On further testing, I see that the same code works perfectly sometimes and not others. Is it possible to hit race conditions in scripts? I assumed they would be linearly processed with no interruption. If that's not the case, then the errors I am getting virtually require that the references I have stored are variable and not fixed as I would expect. Almost nothing else describes this behavior. --Tegid 00:16, 24 April 2006 (EDT)

I'm not sure what you mean by "race conditions in scripts". Script processing is threaded, however, so several scripts can be processed simulataneously, if that's what you're referring to. --Kkuhlmann 08:02, 25 April 2006 (EDT)

That's what I mean. So two scripts can be running simultaneously both of them operate on the same persistent data, we can have data races. Do you run blocks of scripts together (ie, do you split the scripts into separate threads on groups of 16 scripts (or 32)) I ask that because things work correctly, reliably with 16 new objects, but with 18 (I create two at a time) things stop working reliably (they more reliably fail to work). --Tegid 09:16, 25 April 2006 (EDT)