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iterate the renderable entities while updating a physic component concurrently
on a separate thread.
+* In general, the entire registry isn't thread safe as it is. Thread safety
+ isn't something that users should want out of the box for several reasons.
+ Just to mention one of them: performance.
+ This kind of entity-component systems can be used in single threaded
+ applications as well as along with async stuff. Moreover, typical thread based
+ models for ECS don't require a fully thread safe registry to work. Actually
+ one could reach the goal with the registry as it is while working with most of
+ the common models, after all.
+ Because of the few reasons mentioned above and many others not mentioned,
+ users are completely responsible for synchronization whether required.
+
# Crash Course: core functionalities
The `EnTT` framework comes with a bunch of core functionalities mostly used by