Re: scheduling quandry

[Paul E Johnson]

Marcus said:
> PJ> But at time X, I do not want actions from the model swarm itself
> PJ> "mixed in" with the actions that are "picked up" from the agent
> PJ> schedules.
> 
> How about having an intermediate randomized BugSwarm that is activated
> in the ModelSwarm (which uses the default ActivationOrder
> synchronization).

OK, I understand that and will try it out.

Question: If I create that imtermediate BugSwarm level, I don't think
there would be any substantive difference if I created one randomized
schedule in the BugSwarm level and had all agents add their actions to
it (rather than creating separate schedules in each bug and then
synchronizing them in the way we have been discussing).  Aside from
saving some memory by requiring a smaller number of schedule objects to
be created, is there any possible benefit to redesigning that way? 
Perhaps there would be an improvement in performance (speed).  I'm just
asking for a theoretical answer, and if you are unsure I can write it
both ways and compare.

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