[Icfp04-discuss] simulator speed

[Rolf]

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), so I've just been 
>running through 5000 or 10000 and seeing how it does, which only takes about 
>10 or 20 minutes (respectively).  Is this normal?  Does everyones simulator 
>run this slow?  All my map/ant lookups are O(1), and I have all the C++ 
>compiler optimizations on (-O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer), and I 
>turned off all the output.
>
>Thanks,
>-Jeff
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Using Java, with a GUI Blow-by-blow Simulation that looks sommething 
like the one on the contest home page, it takes about 2 minutes to run a 
full simulation.

That is in the debugger too.....

Honestly, I am not trying to yank your chain.... I'll attach a screen 
shot if you want... ;-)

The simulator is about the only thing I have going great right now ;-) 
My ants are really messed up in their heads....

Rolf