Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3190] INL confine wobbling

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:14:47PM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:44:58PM -0400, Dave Ahn wrote:
> > In the processing adding continous scoring support, I noticed why we're
> > getting the strange wobbling effect under INL confinement.  The INL robot
> > runs its maintenance 5 times a second whereas the server updates at 10 times
> > a second.  This differential could also change game outcome in extreme
> > circumstances such as when winning condition is met briefly between the
> > INL robot maintenance check.  I think that this "bug" can be ignored for
> > all practical purposes, though.  Can anyone think of any compelling reasons
> > for/against upping the INL maintenance check to 10 times per second?
> 
> How expensive is it?

Not very.  The INL maintenance check isn't very efficient but does far less
work than, say, what ntserv does every update.

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