[MUD-Dev] Task Parsing

[Nathan Yospe]

On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Greg Munt wrote:

:On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Stephen Zepp wrote:

:[Snip description of taking a task, such as 'harvest lumber', and 
:breaking it down into atomic sub-tasks, which are then assigned to an 
:actor/NPC]

:How do you handle limited memory resources? If the actor being assigned a 
:task is in a part of the world that is currently swapped out to disk, 
:what do you do? Do you have to bring it back into memory to enable the 
:actor to process the assigned work? Or is the result of the work 
:calculated, and the results applied, when that part of the world is 
:brought back into memory? (I.e. it is not loaded into memory unless a 
:player needs it) (I believe Nathan does something like this?)

:Of course, I'm assuming you have an in-memory db, supported by disk 
:caching. 

I think I'd better clear something up at this point. I don't do memory
management, on this scale. I swap blocks, and memory is allocated so as 
to minimize scattered active memory, but the swapping mentioned above is 
for processes (or, specifically threads).
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