[sldev] [ARCH] Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's

Mike Monkowski monkowsk at watson.ibm.com
Tue Sep 18 11:19:52 PDT 2007


Jason Giglio wrote:
>> The diagrams don't consider multiple viewers attached to a Region 
>> Host, but let's consider how viewers get information about other 
>> avatars.  In the current SL architecture, all the information about 
>> all of the avatars is on the sim (region host) and all connections are 
>> through the sim.  When an avatar moves across regions, his information 
>> is handed off from sim to sim.  And because of this, we are limited to 
>> about a hundred avatars per sim.
> 
> 
> That's a non-sequitur. It's because of a lot of reasons, but the design 
> you describe is really not one of them.

If you know the reasons, it would be good to list them, because I think 
this is one of the limitations that should be eliminated.

Mike


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