[sldev] A thought on how to lower resources used by sensors

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2009-05-19, at 06:28, Carlo Wood wrote:
> The problem of 'sensors' is that they do too many call backs to
> (cpu intensive) LSL scripts. Namely, whenever the distance to
> the sensor changes.

Say what?

Sensors don't do callbacks when the distance to the sensor changes.  
They do callbacks when the sense operation happens. If you have your  
sensor firing many times a second, that's laggy, yes, but that's a  
completely different issue.