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Re: Contest 2 Announcement:

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Nov 29, 2004
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:52:10 -0800, cklester <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
> 
> posted by: cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
> 
> 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?

It'll be a maximum of 8 seconds, not a minimum. I'm not sure I like
all this talk about processing for as long as possible, but there you
go...

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

The tournament will be automated. I'm thinking I'll leave it running
overnight. (There goes my folding@home ranking)

-- 
MrTrick