I just had a thought as to how to reduce script time on the entire of Second Life. (Timeless prototype, Mystic Cookie and Others are going to love me for this.)
With the Introduction of the avatar rendering costs display in the new RC, and the terrible lag that is seemingly all over Secondlife at the moment. I was thinking about things that all avatars have. I know not all avatars will have things like this but I am guessing most will. I personally rec
    Most people I know will have some kind of local avatars sensor. MultiGadget, MystiTools, etc etc. All of these will be running sensors continuously. Two avatars standing next to each other will be running two sensors and getting pretty much the same results from those sensors. Which obviously will cause server lag. Additionally
think about the voice chat. That will again double up the amount of data those agents client machines require from the servers. (correct me if I am wrong but agents running voice need avatar position data from the server so that ventrillo knows the appropriate levels for the clients to playback the voice chat at.). Even without Voice and the sensor devices. The Client machines must also be getting data on the positions of the avatars for rendering purposes.
    So, My suggestion. Include some kind of local avatars list, with the information on it like distance, away, busy, on voice chat, etc etc. All of this information is being sent to the client anyway.
    We already have a "Speaking on Voice" list. It would just require adding a few extra sections to it. I am thinking something like the IM list where we get information on the avatars, such as mod rights and whether they can be mapped or not. So the "Local Avatars List" would look the same as that, but would have columns for Away/Busy statuses, whether the agent is using voice, and all importantly the distance from your agent to them.
    With the new avatar lag tool within the release candidate I am guessing that you at Linden Labs are focusing on the lag that agents produce for Second Life as a whole. My suggestion does not make as much of a difference as some other major factors but as the saying goes, "save the pennies...".