After the crazed user picked up a stone and smashed the window, the cache took effect immediately, and everyone nearby turned to look at him in terror.
But this was only his own cached view. In reality, the other users nearby had not yet seen the glass being smashed. Everyone was still strolling lazily forward.
A few seconds later, once the server finished calculating, it began playing the sudden incident for all the users along the street to see. It even played it in batches, showing it to half of them first, then showing it to the rest two seconds later.
In other words, the person who smashed the window and the other passersby experienced the sudden incident several seconds apart. However, the server would quickly adjust afterward, and soon eliminate the effects of the time difference.
It sounded complicated, but it could actually be achieved with nothing more than simple AI simulations and a caching program. This greatly reduced the pressure on the server and made the entire Dream Net more stable.
As long as the server processed information quickly enough, the time difference would be minuscule, and smoothing out its effects would be easy.
When Song He first understood the time-difference mechanism behind the cache, he felt that it was indeed ingenious and useful. At the same time, he felt a strange sensation, as though everyone in the Dream Net was living in an illusion.
But when he thought about it carefully...that was how the real world worked too!
Humans in the real world also had delays in their reflex arcs before they could react to what had actually happened.
When faced with a sudden event, the brain often needed some time to understand it, which was equivalent to the server receiving a signal and then analyzing it