[sldev] Re: [ARCH] Raw notes from the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group.

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 11:30 +0200, Tao Takashi wrote:

> Well, there might be a tradeoff between portal-like regions and
> contigous space. Both should actually be possible and LL made it clear
> in that meeting that they want a contigous space. 

There's no reason LL couldn't just interconnect their sims with
256x(inf) portals on each side of a 256x256x(inf) box and get something
that appears and performs exactly like what they have now, while
actually using the much more flexible portal system used by a
hypothetical "everyone else".

We're adding flexibility here, not removing it.
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