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by nightcracker 3358 days ago
> 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.

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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.