Re: The Swarm space (was RePast (another agent toolkit) released)

[Ralf Stephan]

Marcus: 
> Cygwin is slow for system calls, but otherwise it doesn't extract any
> significant cost across the board.  My experience is that batch
> simulations using Cygwin are among the fastest (across platforms)
> since Windows DLLs don't have the overhead of position independent
> code.

When the issue of a.out/ELF came to the Linux community in, what?
around 95?, performance loss due to the missing register and the
indirection was measured as ~3% over the system.  Don't know if this
is of relevance.


Yet another subject beaten to death,
ralf
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