Comments on: SmartFoxServer, Photon and Project Darkstar

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:19:11 +0000

It would be a mistake to assume that something written in C++ must necessarily be “faster” than something in Java. We’re comparing two different applications and not an identical algorithm in one language vs another. You should benchmark for yourself and decide if a particular application is fast enough for what you want.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:09:48 +0000

While comparing SmartFox and Photon, shouldn’t we also consider the backend of Photon being written in C++ (hence fast), while SmartFox is written in Java(and hence should be slower than Photon) ?

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AS3/Flex Based MUD Engine? - Top Mud Sites Forum — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:32:55 +0000

[...] (but usable by them). Let’s see, the coder of Maiden Desmodus had a post about SmartFoxServer… SmartFoxServer, Photon and Project Darkstar | bc-dev.net An open source AS3 mud seems like a nice niche that could be [...]

By: boris

boris — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:22:20 +0000

i just found your reviews here, thanks for that.
I’d like to add that photon does now offer a free 50 concurrent connections license.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:45:48 +0000

Thanks for this interesting read.

just need to say that smartfox allows JSON messaging protocol (I’m using this on smartfox) so XML overhead becomes less of an issue.

Shame that photon is platform-dependent, I was interested in it until I discovered that.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:07:06 +0000

I’ll post more about it once I’ve made more progress, but essentially it’s going to be a sci-fi themed game with ground based play in text and space flight/combat in a 3D environment.

I’d not heard of Mantissa, but I’ll definitely check it out, thanks!

By: georgek

georgek — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:22:22 +0000

Wow, interesting! When you say ‘the inclusion of 3D’ I wonder if this means a full 3D environment, or something else?

Incidentally I was looking at Mantissa the other day, an application framework built on Twisted with its own data store. I suspect it’s more experimental (i.e., buggy ;D ) than you may be interested in though.