OpenEuphoria

Re: Contest 2 Announcement:

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Nov 29, 2004
• 566 views

Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> > I don't see why it would be faster just because you can start them all at
> > the same time.  The
> real time is taken up by the bots themselves:</font></i>
> > 
> > for i = 1 to num_bots do
> >    -- send start msg to bot # i
> >    -- wait up to 2 seconds for response
> > end for
> 
> Yes, ok. I'll make things sequential.

Doesn't this slow things down, big time?

If you have 4 bots, that'll be a minimum of 8 seconds, whereas with
the threading, it's not necessarily that long... right?

Well, unless you wait "up to" the 2 seconds... Then it might be tolerable.
But what about with 10,000 bots?!?!?

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/