Re: Scheduling in java

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "TB" == thomas buehrmann <address@hidden> writes:

TB> is there a difference (e.g. in performance) between different
TB> agents subclassing from one base class and different agents
TB> implementing a common interface? 

Message accessed via interfaces or inheritance should have the same
performance.

TB> Also, as long as every agent
TB> class has got the stepAgent method, I can use the
TB> 'createActionForEach$message' and the
TB> 'createFActionForEachHeterogeneous$call'.

Yep.

TB> what's the most efficient combination of these methods
TB> (inheritance, interface <-> message, call)?

createFActionForEachHomogeneous with a Java FCall argument will be the fastest,
provided you only have one type of agent in the set.

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