[sldev] Reviewing/Fixing the Particle System

[kelly at lindenlab.com]

> One thing my wife showed me and I notice is still there.  The particle
> system works better on our older PC's then it does on our new Dual Core
> systems.
>
> On my new dual core system, sometimes I don't even see the particle
> system.
> Even when no other systems are around.  On the older machine it works
> fine.
>
>

Probably a red herring, but the thing with dual core systems is that
clocks and timers etc can be hard.  They tend to do crazy things like go
backwards occasionally. I could imagine a scenario where this could cause
more particles to be created than should normally be created.  I have no
facts to back any of this up. :D