[Opensim-dev] proposal: cleanup and break up region modules

[Dr Scofield]

Tleiades wrote:
>> I'd be much more of a fan of having each module a seperate dll.  Files
>> are cheap too. :)  And that makes it very clear to people what they are
>> loading, and what they aren't loading.
>>
> 
> (On the fear of talking about performance prematurely)
> Won't that cause problems for the JIT'er?
> 
> Normally access to member variables gets optimized away into a direct
> memory access rather than invocation of a JSR. If I recall correctly
> this optimization does not work for dynamically loaded assemblies.

well, if that's the case, then it's not working currently either :-) currently
we lump all region modules into one large super DLL and load that dynamically.

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