[Opensim-dev] Thoughts on Scripting

[Dahlia Trimble]

I'm not sure I agree, periodic state backups could preserve quite a bit of
information, and machines hosting simulators can fail just as a machine
hosting a script server. Not sure I agree with the delays either as the
script server may even be able to do things faster since it may only have
script processing to do and doesn't have to spend time processing physics or
whatnot. If it was able to communicate all the changes that needed to happen
in a server frame before the next frame starts then it may actually be a
faster design. I guess a lot depends on how it's implemented.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:32 AM, J Ross Nicoll
<jrn2005 at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>wrote:

> The problem with an external script server is you're still doomed if
> the server goes down. You need to be able to serialise state anyway or
> the first extended powercut/hardware fault/intern looking for a kettle
> lead will cause unspeakable chaos.
>
> You'd also be bringing in even more delay in script response time, but
> that's relatively minor.
>
> On 7 Sep 2008, at 15:52, Mike Deem wrote:
>
> > I've also been thinking about things like global scripts and
> > external script servers. External script servers would solve some of
> > the script state serialization issues. Instead of moving a running
> > script from one region to another, it just keeps running on it's
> > server.
>
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