[Opensim-dev] RFC: Changing default script engine to xengine

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Sean Dague wrote:
> This is a request for comments on changing the default script engine to
> xengine.  There was a thread about this a couple of months ago in which
> the resolution was to wait until 0.6 was released.
> 
> Here are the pros - cons as I see it:
> 
> Cons
> * a change like this, no matter how prepared we are, can cause some
> temporary breaks in people's environments
> 
> Pros
> * xengine uses less memory than dotnet engine
> * xengine uses less cpu than dotnet engine -
> http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/11/07/a-brief-look-at-dotnetengine-vs-xengine/
> * xengine doesn't do the event drop which causes lots of bug reports
> like this one: http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=2777
> 
> I'm sure there are other pros and cons, and I'm happy for others to
> throw them out here.  I've been telling every IBM internal team to use
> XEngine for the past 6 months, and every one say a performance and
> stability increase after they made the change.
> 
> I think that making it the default out of the box will reduce a lot of
> issues that new users are having with OpenSim, and it definitely along
> the lines of trying to make as much work right out of the box as we can.
> 
> Opinions?  Comments?  I'd like to try to achieve consensus over the next
> couple of days so we could make such a change.
> 

Good summary.  +1 on changing the default from me.

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