Re: Simulation frameworks in C++?

[Manor Askenazi]

> I'm still curious about the possibilities of using threads as an
> alternative to schedules or while loops. Yet another topic, I guess.

It may be the case that most schedules will be quite simple, and require
only one or two locks, but I really believe that in principle this is a
very hard thing to do, certainly its difficult for non-comp-sci people.

However, there is a compromise in the air, i.e. express the actions in a 
centralised data structure a la schedules, but thread its execution (where 
this is allowed). Such an approach would have the benefit of clarity, and 
explicit representation, but also has presumably a large run-time benefit.

BTW... I think that thanks to the Garbage Collection that comes with Java, 
the developpers will be able to spend some time looking into this (which 
is currently spent looking at stuff like memory leaks and so forth)! After 
all, theoretically this approach is feasible in ObjC-Swarm, its just that 
the language is full of other details one has to worry about...

Manor.