question on recycling

[johnny]

Hi i was wondering i can not seem to figrue out how to recycle a object and for some reason i try to and it shows it recycled but yet its still there if that makes sense. It shows it as recycled but its still shows up as recyclable. Is there a way to eval something that your having trouble getting rid of? Thanks

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[Stephen Gigante]

In LamdbaCore , when you recycle something, it changes it to a lightweight "recyclable object", and saves it for the next time an object is created. 
Given the amount of creation and deletion in a MOO, recycling numbers is more logical than blasting them out of existance, and creating higher and higher numbers (and db size).

Your recyclable will be shunted back into the MOO when $recycler is next asked for an object.

Hope this explains the differences between the manual's definition of 'recycle()', and $recycler:recycle()

Stephen

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[Tyler Littlefield]

if it goes through the recycler, the parent is just changed and it's cut down. doesn't help your object count, but then again it lets you re-use objects, as well, which is nice. See $recycler:_recycle for more info. I also generally change @recycle where it uses player:_recycle to $recycler:_recycle and move off some of the perm work to that verb. This may also depend on what sort of systems you have in place to manage the quota-if any, as well as object count and etc. If you have a generator for dynamic objects for example, it may be nice to rework the recycler so that the objects can easily be regenerated or at least set up with a cache of extra objects for you to use. I set something like this up when I was working with generating mobs quickly through the room, basically the recycler always made sure that there was a certain amount of objects of type NPC in creation after a npc died or something was recycled of that type, and just recycled the rest. Then all I had to do was retrieve the object from the recycler and fill in the properties or let the area fill them in.

Hopefully that made some sense, it sounds a lot more complex now that I write it out, but it did end up speeding up the world.

[johnny]

thanks much.

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