[Icfp04-discuss] Re: simulator

[Ben Lippmeier]

Eijiro Sumii wrote:

>Yes, you are sharp:-) - the compiling simulator is slower for huge
>ants.  Its speed varies from ~1 to ~3 seconds (for 100,000 rounds in a
>100x100 world) under the same environment - Mobile Pentium III
>1.13GHz, Linux on VMware on Windows 2000.  How about interpreting
>simulators?
>  
>

My fabulous Haskell interperative simulator runs at about 400 steps / 
sec ! .. Put that down to massive abuse of lists and lack of destructive 
update.

.. needless to say, now that the comp is over, i'm seeing what I can do 
to improve its... ahem.. performance :).

Ben.