[Tutor] How would python messure up in performance?

[Kevin]

Thanks for the advise. I am no ware near ready to do this as i am just
learning to use python. I just thought it would be interesting to see
a mud made in python rather then always in C or C++. So for now I am
only going to start out making small programs to learn with. So thanks
for answering the question.


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:04:25 +0000, Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 23, 2005, at 23:57, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > Well not sure how to answer that but I will try. For file I/O you
> > would have a seperat file for each character that would store
> > HP/MANA/MOVE points, store items that the character would have on.
> > Areas would be loaded from there own files with all the creatures and
> > items for that area in the same file. Spells would probably have there
> > own seperate file to load from. As far as unning the game it would be
> > run on a redhat linux server.
> 
>        That's a bizarre design choice (for the characters, I mean), this just
> screams Database, especially since you may find yourself with
> concurrent write accesses on some files (e.g. a player attacks another
> while the other is moving).
> 
>        Anyway. This looks like you'll be doing lots of file I/O, with a few
> calculations inbetween, right? Then unless your server is really
> shitty, Python should handle this just fine.
> 
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