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<LI><em>From</em>: Dan Root <<A HREF="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: 14 May 1997 00:34:15 -0400</LI>
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clawrenc#cup,hp.com writes:
> >The other two code bases I was primarily interested in (UnterMUD and
> >UberMUD) were quite small as well, with most of the features I
> >wanted, but with quirky coding (MJR's code is beautiful... if you can
> >understand it) that made modifaction hard.
>
> You bet. Marcus Ranum's code is flat out gorgeous and damned
> efficient. Its a shame he dropped out of the field.
Indeed. I should say though, that while his later code is quite nice
(Unter 2.0+ is very clean for the most part), it's damn near
incomprehensible without a lot of caffeine and forcing oneself to stay
awake until it groks. :)
> >(FWIW, someone mentioned that process context switching was
> >expensive. This is true, but your server is going to be switched out
> >anyways, as it's unlikely that nothing else is running on the machine
> >at all.)
>
[snip explanation of context switch overhead for larger numbers of processes]
Agreed. In 'the most efficient' case, you never, ever, context
switch. :) But if your OS is going to do it for you anyway, having a
small number (two, possibly three) that seperates out all the blocking
into seperate processes can be a pretty big win.
-DaR
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Dan Root - dar#thekeep,org
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00387" HREF="msg00387.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Dan Root <a href="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 09:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00392" HREF="msg00392.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 13:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00457" HREF="msg00457.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00403" HREF="msg00403.html">[MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
Ross Nicoll <a href="mailto:rnicoll#lostics,thenet.co.uk">rnicoll#lostics,thenet.co.uk</a>, Mon 12 May 1997, 21:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00438" HREF="msg00438.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
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