A way to make keyboard event queue both responsive and not take whole CPU power

Question

I am making an Sdl game, it\'s 2d shooter. I am using SDL to import surfaces and OpenGL to draw them on the screen (doing so because it works way faster than just SDL). I\'v

Answer 1

I'd suggest looking into SDL_EventFilter and the related functions. It's not a polling queue input method, so it doesn't require stalling, although, if I remember correctly, it doesn't happen on the main thread, which may be exactly what you need for performance, but might complicate the code.