August 1998
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wired Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** John Bertoglio
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- OT: BBSs, s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Jon A. Lambert
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- (fwd) "Smart" monsters Nathan Fenenga Yospe
- Interesting poll Koster, Raph
- Interesting poll John Bertoglio
- Milgram experiment (was WIRED: Kilers have more fun) Mike Sellers
- Implementing god. quzah
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Marian Griffith
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Andy Cink
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version Adam Wiggins
- UOL/Linux client URLs J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Nathan F Yospe
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library ##Make Nylander
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) J C Lawrence
- Secrets of the Game Designers s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- 3D World Models Leach, Brad BA
- 3D World Models S. Patrick Gallaty
- Toba Java->C Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Franklyn Colebrooke, Jr.
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Leach, Brad BA
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Nathan F Yospe
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Matt Chatterley
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Vadim Tkachenko
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads J C Lawrence
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Matt Chatterley
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Protocols Vadim Tkachenko
- Events s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- after the plague: mud report S. Patrick Gallaty
- after the plague: mud report quzah
- after the plague: mud report Adam Wiggins
- after the plague: mud report Ling
- Object Storage Fact Book, Release 4.0 (fwd) Nathan F Yospe
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wire d Magazine...) J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate J C Lawrence
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Chris Gray
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- 208.240.161.41 Adam J. Thornton
- 208.240.161.41 Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Adam Wiggins
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Robert Woods
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev T. Alexander Popiel
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Michael Hohensee
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev John Bertoglio
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Scatter
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Ben Greear
- Adverts in email on the list. quzah
- Adverts in email on the list. Jon A. Lambert
- Adverts in email on the list. Holly Sommer
- Adverts in email on the list. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Adam J. Thornton
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Ben Greear
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Chris Gray
- Fw: lurker emerges James Wilson
- Fw: lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Neat surrealistic graphical mudclients in Java? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. J C Lawrence
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Adam J. Thornton
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Rule #3 S. Patrick Gallaty
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Shawn Halpenny
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: Chris Gray
- List of rules suggestionbox Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- List of rules suggestionbox Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges) James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- Amoeba: Distributed OS release J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- clients anyone?... James Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Adam Wiggins
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- Re:Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- ADMIN: Over quoting (again) J C Lawrence
- JASSS: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Leach, Brad BA
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Brandon J. Rickman
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Marian Griffith
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Damion Schubert
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- LinuxThreads and SIGUSR1 (Ref: [MUD-Dev]) Adam J. Thornton
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. James Wilson
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. S. Patrick Gallaty
- Eye movement. T. Alexander Popiel
- Eye movement. Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. J C Lawrence
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout (fwd) Marc Hernandez
- avoiding ecological wipeout Laurel Fan
- Passing file descriptors to other processes Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- OT: access s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affordances and social method Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Missing MUD-Dev post (fwd) Dr. Cat
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- Affordances and social method Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marian's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marian's Tailor Problem Chris Gray
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Mike Sellers
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Nathan F Yospe
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Oliver Jowett
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Jon Leonard
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Ben Greear
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Jon A. Lambert
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- Private Affordances and social method Marian Griffith
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun S. Patrick Gallaty
- free XML Parser (was clients anyone?...) James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Jon A. Lambert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers S. Patrick Gallaty
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers J C Lawrence
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem jwilson@rochester.rr.com
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam J. Thornton
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis S. Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam Wiggins
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Slightly-OT: RPG Mapping Tool Holly Sommer
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Adam Wiggins
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Travis Casey
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- Thoughts on Marian's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Standard Mud Room Format? plateau
- Standard Mud Room Format? T. Alexander Popiel
- Standard Mud Room Format? Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Standard Mud Room Format? J C Lawrence
- Standard Mud Room Format? Adam J. Thornton
- Standard Mud Room Format? Holly Sommer
- Standard Mud Room Format? Matthew R. Sheahan
- Standard Mud Room Format? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Standard Mud Room Format? Scatter
- Tangent to the Tailor Marc Bowden
- PerLDAP, usefull for your perl-mud? quzah
- UBE/high: Affordances and social method Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. J C Lawrence
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Adam J. Thornton
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Sockets permanently in CLOSE_WAIT state. (fwd) Oliver Jowett
- Fw: BlackSquad Releases File Formats Damion Schubert
- Revenants (Marion's Tailor Problem) Damion Schubert
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Marc Hernandez
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Adam Wiggins
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- [off-topic] Email Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Minimal MUD-kernel (was Finer points of Telnet programming ...) Niklas Elmqvist
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] pomales
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD D. B. Brown
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD J C Lawrence
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- Modular MUD Holly Sommer
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Vadim Tkachenko
- Modular MUD John Bertoglio
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet progra Jon A. Lambert
- OS Wars [Was: Modular MUD] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet progra Jon A. Lambert
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Chris Gray
- The 'consider' command Richard Woolcock
- The 'consider' command Damion Schubert
- The 'consider' command Jon Leonard
- The 'consider' command Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Scripting:was Modular Mud Jon A. Lambert
- Quake 3: How to do OpenGL J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? Chris Gray
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? T. Alexander Popiel
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? T. Alexander Popiel
- lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- lockless system - foolproof? James Wilson
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Aug 1998 20:36:11 -0400
>James Wilson<jwilson@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:42:17 -0400 James
>>> Wilson<jwilson@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>> The easiest and perhaps the simplest way of attacking this is thru
>>> approaching the level of parallelism in your execution model.
>>> Again, taking the pessimal case, if the execution model degrades
>>> until only one event is executing at a time, then X is guaranteed
>>> to successfully C&C when its turn comes as there is no competition.
>>>
>>> This is the approach I take. Events enter the Executor with a
>>> "priority" value. As events fail C&C they accumulate priority.
>>> The executor's execution model then adapts dynamically per the
>>> highest priority event on its list. At one end its the normal
>>> unrestrained competition between events, and t the other it
>>> degrades to single-tasking with everal stages in between.
[snip]
>> You mentioned that you are designing with user scripting in mind. If
>> one of those contentious events ends up getting a monopoly on cpu
>> time, *and* it's of long/indefinite duration (which would seem to
>> correlate nicely with the propensity for contentiousness),
>> everything would freeze waiting for it.
>
>Pessimally, nearly yes. In practice no. The game-wide event thru-put
>will (fairly rapidly) degrade to single-tasking, and then resume
>immediately with normal processing. Should the offensive event be a
>raid respawner (ie there are many such events and/or each one creates
>further like itself) which is the ultimately pessimal case, the game
>will enter a yo-yo-like state of constantly entering single-tasking
>mode and then leaving it.
>
>However such excessively contentious events are easy to detect and
>guard against. Here, I (used to) run a little statistics monitor that
>would note any events that took the game to or near single tasking
>mode, and if the repeated more than once an hour, would spoof the
>defining object and freeze the event calls for admin intervention.
so you've essentially disallowed these contentious-by-nature events, right?
>> While some might say it seems a bad idea to allow users to write
>> long-running functions, a scripting system would seem to me to be
>> most useful to builders wanting to add new functionality to the
>> world without having to muck about in the source code.
[snip]
>That said, much like the old argument of C vs Pascal, free scripting
>on MUDs is akin to handing chainguns with hari triggers to monkeys.
heh.
Seriously, I am reconsidering my own attachment to user scripting, in
light of this whole threading issue.
>> In this case, putting bounds on running time would be a serious
>> constraint on builder creativity. Ideally, bounding runtimes should
>> be a matter of policy rather than forced by the implementation.
>
>Disagreed, strongly. The reason is actually simple: I find that
>extremely long running or contentious events are actually of flawed
>base design. There is always another divisional structure that allows
>the same result to be accomplished with less contention points, and
>often with far greater elegance.
[example snipped]
I guess there's two issues here. First, is everything that is possible
with contentious events possible with equivalent non-contentious events?
I would think not, but perhaps enough functionality would remain to still
make the system practical. I'm no computer scientist, so I'll leave
the formal proofs to someone else. ;) Second, what degree of skill would
users need to have to properly script non-contentious events?
[snip]
>This is the sort of things which I am unwilling to proof against. I'm
>willing to make the system withstand such onslaughts (monolithinc long
>running events), which it currently does, but I am not willing to
>require the system to perform well under such (it doesn't).
Agreed. As long as a system is powerful enough, it will be vulnerable in
some sense (if only to resource attacks). I don't think there's a way
around this, just different sets of tradeoffs.
James - lockless system - foolproof? J C Lawrence
- Admin: OS wars and avocacy are off-topic J C Lawrence