Speed Question...

[Darren Schreiber]

In the modified Schelling simulation I am working on, I have a large number
of agents (up to 50,000) that are comparing the utility of three to five
different locations to find the best.  I am using NSelect to create an
optionsList of random locations to compare for each agent.

I have been using atOffset to parse the optionsList.  I am planning on
changing to use index instead.

Which way should be faster?

The steps using index would be

1. use NSelect to create optionsList with 5 possible locations for the agent

2. create an index

3. parse the list calculating the utility for each location

4. drop the index

5. repeat 50,000 times

        Thanks in advance.

                Darren

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                 Darren Schreiber
                  Attorney at Law
                 Graduate Student
             Political Science, UCLA
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