[Opensim-dev] Scripting and compatibility

[Dr Scofield]

Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> My $0.02 on the delays:
> 
> Often they are necessary to protect the quality of the experience from
> the excessive zeal of aggressive or inexperienced scripters. For
> example, if the llEmail() delays were not there, some scripters could
> run a spam operation from a region and the region owner may be blamed.
> Other cases where limits are useful is in prim creation and motion,
> where if no throttling is available a region could easily be brought to
> it's knees by a script run amuck. Some delays could actually improve the
> perceived performance, such as in the case of prim motion where
> sufficient time is available to notify all observing clients that an
> object has moved before the next movement occurs.
> 
> I vaguely remember some discussion about the necessity of the delays and
> I thought the consensus was that they would be configurable in some
> fashion,

i thought so too. those delays seem to make sense if not from an LSL point of
view then at the very least to protect against abuse.

-- 
dr dirk husemann ---- virtual worlds research ---- ibm zurich research lab
SL: dr scofield ---- drscofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net ---- http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/
RL: hud at zurich.ibm.com - +41 44 724 8573 - http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/