Re: GUISwarm (2)

[Stuart Lowry]

> 
> > I hacked the heatbugs code to create my own simulation.  All is going well
> > with one exception...each step taks about 5 seconds to complete.  My
> > calculations are minimal but my world size is 200 x 200.  Is there any hope
> > of speeding up this simulation?  I tried to create a list of all my agents
> > and passed it to the "setObjectCollection".  this had no impact.
> 
> Stuart, 
> 
> How many agents are you running with and what do they have to do at
> each cycle?  If your agents are fairly simple, this shouldn't happen.
> The world size, in itself, shouldn't cause a lag like this.  Does the
> lag worsen the more agents you have?
> 
> glen
> 

the same number of agents in a 20 x 20 world runs with speeds comparable to
the heatbug simulation.

When I get a chance I will recompile the swarm libs with profiling enabled
& see if that helps to profile the application...until then I will
continue to search.

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