[545] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Server Thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun Nov 6 17:19:07 1994
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 14:18:34 -0800 (PST)
Ok, I'm new to this community, but here are a couple of my thoughts, for
whatever they are worth...
1) Regular Expressions.
Incredibly useful. I don't particualrly care where or how they
are impmented in the server, btu they shoudl be fast so you can
use them freely. (The most common way to build fast reg-exp parsers
is to compile them down to an FSA. It can take some memory, but
runs like a champ.)
2) Load Control.
We have a reasonable nice and clean timing mechanism in cold mud
(heartbeat) but no way to get an indication of load. As interactvity
is strongly imapcted by load (mud-lag), this is important to know
as timing of interactive things has to be adjusted as load increases.
( A load-sensitive timer would be REALLY neat, but not necessary, as you
could build it in ColdC (C--,whatever you call it) if you can get
a load-value from the system.)
Comments?
Jeff Kesselman