[DGD] 1.1.23

[Felix A. Croes]

In version 1.1.23 of DGD, callouts with a delay of 0 seconds are run as soon
as possible, rather than at the next second.  I think this will be the last
required preparation for multi-threading in the future: a thread can be
split up in several atomic parts, without introducing any delays.  For the
background on why it is desirable to split up a thread in smaller parts, see
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~demos/dome.html .

Below I repeat my welcoming mail to the list, which may have been missed by
people who subscribed after.

> From felix Mon Aug 11 01:38:04 1997
> To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
> Subject: Hello.
> 
> Welcome to the DGD mailing list.  This list is unmoderated, but I will do
> my best to keep out junkmail and other spam.
> 
> 
> My plans for DGD 1.2:
> 
>  - multithreading for SMP platforms.  This will not be visible from within
>    the game and will only be used to speed up the server.
>  - parse_string().  I have no well-defined plans for it yet, except that it
>    will "parse strings".  It will not be a substitute for parse_command()
>    or the MudOS natural language parsing package, but it will be possible
>    to get the same functionality with LPC code that makes use of parse_string().
>  - Documentation: LPC reference manual.
> 
> Apart from the patches for stable DGD, there is also an "experimental"
> version, with features such as swapfile compression.  It is available from
> ftp://dworkin.simplex.nl/pub/dgd/experimental/ .  This experimental version
> will eventually become 1.2, while the "stable" branch contains only bugfixes.
> 
> I am also working on a mudlib project on top of the kernel library that is
> supplied with DGD 1.1.  I expect this mudlib to become the standard for new
> DGD muds.  It contains a variety of features that I do not want to discuss
> yet.  Sorry :)  Suffice it to say that almost no 2.4.5 concepts survive in
> it.
> 
> Regards,
> Dworkin