Re: Multithreading question

[Paul Johnson]

Darold Higa wrote:
> Wow, thanks for all of the optimization tips.  I will definately give them a try.  Keep 
> in mind that these "benchmarks" I'm talking about were for a very simple 
> simulation that we used for that article some time ago.  It sounds like the data I was 
> writing to the console for my co-author was the cuplrit.  There wasn't much of it, but it 
> was probably enough to cause the performance hit he asked me about.  For my current 
> simulation run I know a lot of my slowdown comes from I/O so I cannot avoid that.  The 
> data collection for movies is pretty important for the kinds of simulations I am running. 
>  Even when I turn hard disk access off and turn off 90% of the rasters, and even only 
> display every 10th frame, it still takes a long time once my agent count gets high.

If you are just writing rasters (dots) and not any pixmaps on them, you 
can speed up processing by many magnitudes by using the Batch Raster 
class instead. If you can't get the one in ftp to work, email me, I'll 
dig out a working example fer ya.

pj

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