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24th December 2022 - Link Blog

Detailed comment on HN describing how Second Life works these days. “There are about 27,500 live regions today, each with its own simulator program, always on even if nobody is using it. Each simulator program takes about one CPU and under 4GB on a server.”

Posted 24th December 2022 at 11:57 pm

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