I have not had a chance to merge the parallel updates in to life-
conway.clj in the files section yet, but for now I thought I would
note I did make one fun enhancement, which is to have each thread
color code the cells. So all cells with the same color were processed
by one pmap thread. On my
Nice! A few more days of work and I've time to play with these kind of
things again. Here are some comments, based on your description.
As game of life is a cellular automata, you do not need any blocking
at all, so you could use agents, rather than refs. It does become an
asynchronous CA then,
It would be interesting to throw gridgain (http://www.gridgain.com/)
into the mix and let people register their machines as part of a CA
grid. Not sure the remote overhead would pay for itself but it would
be interesting.
On Mar 16, 3:03 am, bOR_ boris.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice! A few more
Hello,
2009/3/16 bOR_ boris.sch...@gmail.com
Nice! A few more days of work and I've time to play with these kind of
things again. Here are some comments, based on your description.
As game of life is a cellular automata, you do not need any blocking
at all, so you could use agents, rather
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Scott Fraser scott.e.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
I have taken Larry's Game of Life example that he originally posted
here:
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/fdfc88f1ba95bdee
...and updated it to use all the CPU's your JVM has access to...
Scott,
Your
Hi Kyle,
I added life-conway.clj to the files section last week. It has rand,
clear, and bounded buttons, and the ability to use your mouse to draw
the pattern rather than rely on rand. It's a good way to experiment
with different automata such as gliders.
Larry Sherrill
On Mar 16, 9:33 am,
I'm not very used to concurrent programming, so I have a few questions you
may find naïve, but well, let's just pretend they're interesting ... :
Learning here as well :).
It seems to me that the game of life works in increments of its world.
So I don't see at first what can be gained by
Larry, that you added mouse-drawing is awesome, I wanted to do that
too.
Kyle - my bad on the imports, thanks for the patch.
I will take all these and refold in when I get some time. I also have
some ideas on further speed ups. My gut tells me we could make this
run faster.
One other idea -
I have taken Larry's Game of Life example that he originally posted
here:
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/fdfc88f1ba95bdee
...and updated it to use all the CPU's your JVM has access to. My
first attempts ran into the classic map - pmap slowdown. My next
attempt had too much dosync,
