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8544: [MUD-Dev] Re: PDMud (was Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals)
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From: Petri Virkkula <pvirkkul@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:33:50 +0300 (EEST)
References: [1] [2] [3] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:
JCL> This is a myth originated by partially competant authors and users of
JCL> softcode servers. It is a very long way from the truth. Go have a
JCL> look at properly (ie efficiently) constructed and written softcode
JCL> based MUDs (ColdX and BatMUD are good starters). Also look at the
JCL> (very few) stats available from Marcus Ranum
I would not call BatMUD efficiently coded but you are right
(IMHO) that a softcode system can handle enough
players. However most of BatMUD's performance comes from a
dedicated and fast hardware.
As people are planning a new MUD, IMHO they should think what
kind of system it will be running, ie. make a design decision
whether the MUD should try to keep its resourse usage low in
case of non-dedicated machine(s) or try to make it to as fast as
possible in case of a dedicated machine(s) (or something
between those two choices). It is too difficult to change that
kind of design decisions afterwards, atleast my experience
with BatMUD indicate so.
I have written a document (though it is not finished yet) how
to make LPMud game driver multithreaded and/or distributed. It
is located at
<URL:http://www.iki.fi/pvirkkul/pubs/MUD/mt-lpmud.html> if
you are interested in reading it.
Petri