[Opensim-dev] [Proposal] New software architecture

[Melanie]

Hi,

diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> I think the situation I was more worried about was where the calling code ends up doing a lot of work in the handler, 
>> which could have different effects depending on whether the handler ends up being invoked synchronously or asynchronously.
>> 
>> But if we document that the handler code really shouldn't be doing a major amount of work in any situation then I don't 
>> see any problem.
> 
> This could easily be changed, too, so that the handler goes off on its own.

But it should not. It uses the most efficient way to handle it and 
any conditions where the caller needs a defined behavior can be 
taken care of by the caller. We don't need to second-guess the 
caller, that would lead to 90% inefficient code.

Melanie