Hochwasser/IDEAS.md

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# feature ideas
- more draw modes
- patterns
- https://github.com/MarcelMue/konstrukt ?
- image scaling
- snake
- sheep.exe
- offset rand: random size/color
- proper public api for the fast network handling
- `Fluter` abstraction, implementing `Reader` to update commands? ringbuffer?
- support animations / frame concept
- support (stackable) effects
- make job distribution fully P2P using [2D CAN / Z-ordercurve adressing](https://git.nroo.de/norwin/geo-dht)
# performance considerations
- server limitations: rendering is bottleneck. maybe artificial limitations (commands per draw, connections per IP, queue)
- when network isn't bottleneck: fetch each pixel & only send updates for wrong color (?)
- sync sending with draw frequency (?)
- use virtual subnets for more IPs (ipv6?) (?)
- client limitations: PCI bus is bottleneck? depends on HW I guess
- distribute across cores for max PCI bus saturation (?)
- use userland tcp stack (e.g. https://github.com/google/netstack or even https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap)
- network limitations: packet size, ACKs, congestion
- treat benchmarks on `loopback` with care, it has no packet size limitation. real world interfaces will enforce a max size of 1514 bytes [1]
- avoid packet split if >1514B (?)
- use `TCP_NODELAY` (?)
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5832308/linux-loopback-performance-with-tcp-nodelay-enabled
- cognitive limitations: draw order
- randomized pixel order should give a better idea of the image with equal dominance (?)
- use an energy function like in seam carving to prioritize regions?