From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T05:43:53+09:00
Subject: Re: RRobots - ducks, armed and dangerous

Harold Hausman wrote:
> You get a gold star on the chart for the day!
> 
> Today we can all be thankful for rrobots.rb.

> Here's the listing of my first bot, affectionately titled BotOne. He
> lays a savage beat down on the aptly named NervousBot, but he is by no
> means invincible.

to cool.

> #Begin listing
> [...]
> #End listing
> 
> This bot prefers long matches, as he fires low power shots. This, on
> my machine at least exposes some performance problems associated with
> shooting a lot. Matching a couple of rapid firing bots brings the app
> to it's knees after only a few thousand ticks. My first idea where
> maybe that the bullets were not being cleaned up properly, but looking
> at the source it looks like they are being remove from the hash and
> canvas, so I don't know.

I will dive into that (i was able to finish the match, but it slows
down considerably) maybe i have to 'reuse' old bullets.

> Barring that though, this is brilliant!
> 
> One thousand thanks,
> -Harold

I'm realy glad to see someone enjoys this little game.

cheers

Simon