Technical question: How many chat contacts a bot supports?

JJAcid · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

Hi, I'm new here.
I just wanna know if somebody know aprox how many contacts a bot support.
I mean, how many messages from different people can a bot recieve and answer per second.

I read that the bots made in PHP are slower than the bots made in .NET, this is true?

I searched for a performance comparision of the bots but i found none, there is one?

Thanks, I will post my bot when is finished but first i want to know this tecnical information.

pd: sorry for my english.

JTW · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

The number of responses a bot can send and receive a second is limited by, the host's connection, the hosts processor speed, the programing language and the amount of code required to send a message.

As far as i know AIM has a limit on how often you can send messages (but maybe someone with experience in this will tell you beacuse im not sure on it)

Hope this helped.

JJAcid · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

Hi JTW, thank you for answer.
I have another question for you, which programming language (by your experience) is the most complete and performant to make a bot?.

Thanks again.

JTW · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject:

I cant really answer that beacuse i have only ever used perl. (simply beacuse I havent used any other languages to the level required to make a messenger bot.) However I would say the choice is between VB and perl.

VB beacuse of the sdks that microsoft has released. Perl I would also recommend beacuse of the support you can get from the users on this forum. However with Perl you will be in trouble when the msn.pm stops working simply beacuse there is no one around who is still developing it any more (as far as i know).

JJAcid · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

Thanks again JTW.
Do you know if there is a performance benchmark to compare with?.

JTW · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

Not as far as i know i am afraid.

Good luck on making your bot and keep us informed on how it goes.

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