Agent Pools

[Rob Leclerc]

    Given that my predation model both creates and drops a lot of agents
through the simulation, I am curious to know whether or not it would be
cheaper if I created a large pool of agents at the begining of the
simulation, and set a flag in the methods normally scheduled, such that  if
"isDead == true", that this would simply leave that method call.  This way I
don't have to do dynamic scheduling OR object creation, but would the extra
overhead be worth it?  I simply don't know the costs of each.

Rob Leclerc



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