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I know I have not done any updates to Axis in a long time, but I have been working on something new lately, and I need some input before I keep going.

My idea here is to have Axis connect to sphere directly to get it's information instead of parsing scripts. This would be done using a telnet connection. Once Axis receives the info, it is cached so it's not necessary to load from server every time.

It's all nice, but there is 1 major down side. From the tests that I have done, loading the CHARDEF,SPAWN,ITEMDEF, and TEMPLATE sections only, took about 7min. Axis needs more info than that, but that is the biggest part as there are over 30k itemdefs.
That is a lot of information to transfer over telnet.

[EDIT] I have managed to reduce that same info to 1.5 min

Any thoughts?