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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998 03:58:41 PST8PDT
Niklas Elmqvist<d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
> As I said earlier, the problem I can see with all this is that it is
> not going to be very computationally efficient -- but it is neat,
> IMO. That is, for every command issued by the user, for example, I
> will need a potentially large number of requests passed between
> different modules: socket I/O => parser => interpreter => user
> command handler and so on. Also, I expect that using C++ instead of
> C (like I did in my earlier effort PirateMUD) will also decrease
> performance somewhat, although I have no idea about how much. No
> matter. It all just means I'm going to need a bigger server. <cough>
The lessons learnt from the message-passing based OS designs (cf
microkernel) would seem pertinent here. Don't know what they are
actually -- but perhaps you'd like to report back to the list?
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00575" HREF="msg00575.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Dynamic Loading of Modules (was: Back on the list)</A></strong>,
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