[Icfp04-discuss] simulator speed

[Jens Hauke]

Hi Jeff,

Jeff Franklin wrote:
> Just curious, how long does it take your simulators to run through 100000 
> iterations?  It's taking mine about 2 hours (on a P4 3GHz)...

Just to make you nervous :-)

$/usr/bin/time antsim -1 ant2.ant -2 ant1.ant -w sample5.world -s 100000
[....]
2.18user 0.00system 0:02.18elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (119major+154minor)pagefaults 0swaps

(in words: 2 seconds on an old machine)
$cat /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
cpu MHz         : 704.954

May the ant's be with you,
  Jens