Re: Replicator script (was Re: run with random seed?

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 10:35 AM 6/17/01, Paul Johnson wrote:
> "Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:
> >
> > KG> -s, --varyseed      Run with a random seed
> >
> > KG> May I take this to mean that the time is used as the random seed?
> >
> > The `seconds since 1970' * the current process id is used as the random 
> seed.
>
> Speaking of -s, I've recently started to wish there were two more
> default command line flags in Swarm programs to ease the replication of
> simulations.  I would like a standard -S to specify a seed value and -R
> to indicate run number.  Here's why.

I seem to recall that my custom Arguments class from a couple of years ago 
allowed you to add those things easily. We can check to see if it's still 
compatible with the latest incarnation of Swarm.

Sven


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