Multi-player spaceship bridge simulator game. Captain your starship through adventures with your friends. See https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space
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Might be nice to parallelize PNG image loading #331
This would require separating the PNG loading/decoding step from the opengl texture binding stuff, since the opengl stuff can only be called from the main thread, and thus is serialized. I believe most of the time loading images is actually spent in PNG decoding, so separating this into a first step in which all the PNG coding is done (in parallel) and a 2nd step where these loaded PNG images are made known to opengl (serially) should in theory result in significantly faster load times.
This would require separating the PNG loading/decoding step from the opengl texture binding stuff, since the opengl stuff can only be called from the main thread, and thus is serialized. I believe most of the time loading images is actually spent in PNG decoding, so separating this into a first step in which all the PNG coding is done (in parallel) and a 2nd step where these loaded PNG images are made known to opengl (serially) should in theory result in significantly faster load times.