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Monoracular
Trying to un-jam my mind today, I read this article on Massively about Mono, which I’ve seen referred to on a few occasions.
The skinny is this: a new approach to handling scripts that should be safer, faster and lighter. Safer, in that instead of compiling on the client and possibly injecting unsafe code into the servers, compilation is handled server-side; Faster, by about a factor of 100 or more, meaning the possibility of more sophisticated scripted objects; Lighter, in that the server’s don’t have to work to damn hard processing LSL commands, and can deal with more important things, like letting more people hang in a region simultaneously.
Better scripts, faster scripts, less lag and the promise of improved concurrency? Well, it sounds promising. As long as it’s promising the possible.
Of course, what might happen is that griefers will invent the light-speed replicating-screaming-spinny-cube, hur hur hur. Oh well. Mono’s just another Sword of Damocles.
Posted in Second Life (News,Op-Ed) by R Cruickshank 08/02/08 08:56 AM Tags: opinion, scripting, second life
What do you think?
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