Re: Caution on Boids

[Robert Bell]

Any idea where the problem is?
reb

--- "M. Lang & S. Railsback" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> A note of warning to anyone else that likes to use
> "Boids" in
> presentations on complex systems and their model
> etcs.: The Swarm
> version of Boids that Eric Werk posted last year
> seems to have a major
> memory leak.
> 
> I often run it with 10 boids for a 30 seconds or so
> during a
> presentation, no problem. Yesterday I ran it with 50
> boids and it ate up
> my RAM (120 mbytes) in maybe 1 minute. (Interesting,
> the boids' behavior
> is completely different with 50 of them.)
> 
> So be careful if you're trying this in front of
> people. 
> 
> Steve
> -- 
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> 250 California Ave., Arcata CA 95521
> 707-822-0453; Fax 822-1868
> 
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