I haven't spent a whole lot of time looking at performance as it is too premature in the development process. I'll post observations on this page from time to time. My development box is a AMD K7 (700mhz) processor with 512M memory.
$ rake test ....... Finished in 5.826 seconds. 152 tests, 245 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
Just as a data point I loaded the Rom2.4b6 stock areas into tmud 2.7.0.
---* Database Statistics *--- Rooms - 3126 Players - 1 Objects - 1265 Total Objects - 4392 Highest OID in use - 13055 ---* *---
The virtual memory stood at around 18M after booting the above.
FirstPerformanceRun is the first stab at profiling the server. Previously this was not possible due to the way I implemented shutdown.
The Date class formatting uses Rational numbers for some reason and it really shows up (Integer#gcd). Excessive logging must be the culprit here as it's the only thing using it.
Massive performance gains switching from yaml to marshal in serializing value fields in the Xdbms.
$ time ./dbload.rb -t gdbm -i db/dikubase Highest object in use : 2438 Count of objects dumped : 910 real 0m12.257s user 0m10.585s sys 0m1.011s $ time ./dbload.rb -t gdbm -i db/dikubase Highest object in use : 2438 Count of objects dumped : 910 real 0m4.046s user 0m2.703s sys 0m1.021s