I think David wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am thinking of using the multi-agent approach to "solve" a problem I > have with computation efficiency(not really sure if that is exactly what > I facing). I am not sure how helpful it will be if I use multi agent > systems to do it.
A multiagent system on a single machine will perform worse, not better, than a single JVM, because the CPU will be doing just as much work, but there will be additional overhead due to process context switching and communications. If the JVMs were on multiple machines, then you might see performance gains; but of course most developers don't have the luxury of dictating what hardware their software will be run on. If your program is closely modeled after the HVAC simulator from JIA (which I'm guessing it is, based on past coversations) then you can probably improve things using a different architecture for the GUI update. In the JIA simulator, the GUI has a thread that polls the various devices for their values every 100 msec and updates every widget in the GUI every time. Slowing down the updates would help of course, but so would turning everything around the other way and having change events from the devices drive the GUI updates -- that way there would be updates only when something changes. Finally, note that some graphing libraries will be more performant than others. I don't know about JFreeChart, but make sure you're using a library that's intended for dynamic updates, not one that's intended to produce static graphs for printing. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Science and Engineering PSEs Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
