Re: size estimation

[Marcus G. Daniels]

DC> Does there exist anywhere a useful set of guidelines, discussions, or just
DC> rules of thumb, on the advance estimating of memory requirements for a
DC> model?

If you run `xprint ([self getZone])' in your model Swarm you can see
object counts and sizes.  `xfprint ([self getZone])' will show you object
by object.  You could do this with a small population and divide by
the size of the population to get a sense of things.

Trying to compute the size of an agent without instantitating it can
be hard to do, since often agents will have subcomponents or bookkeeping
data structures that reference other objects, but don't include them.


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