[sldev] Question: Replacing current group chat with XMPP?

jwolk at lindenlab.com jwolk at lindenlab.com
Sun Aug 31 20:39:36 PDT 2008


> I am unsure what discussions have been happening, and moving to something
> standard sounds like a good idea.  I do know however that no matter what
> the implementation, there will be some amount of computation needed to
> send the IM to each user and that the total time to send an IM to N number
> of participants will always be dependent on N.
>    Now, the implementations may be fast enough that it all seems
> relatively instantaneous, but, at some amount of participants (in this
> case...some group size), there will be a measurable amount of "lag."
> Changing implementations may help remedy the situation but won't have
> "no lag" for all groups, for all time.
>

Actually let me rephrase.  Some implementations may be able to scale by
"just throwing hardware at the problem", but that all depends on the
details and how scalable things are.

-Jonathan



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