From: Paul Sanchez <paul@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T03:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: discrete event simulation in ruby?

In article 
<d15ea14a0512310543q68611fc1te680fa78d8d96b9c@mail.gmail.com>,
 Larry White <ljw1001@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm looking for a reasonably complete discrete event simulation library in
> ruby. I've googled and found a couple of projects, but didn't see anything
> that looked very complete.
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> Ideally it would have random generators for most standard distributions,
> good support for queueing, and some fast collection types like splay trees.
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> Does anybody know of anything? I could use a java library but i can't think
> of a better language for building and running small simulations than ruby.
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> thanks in advance.
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I can see using Ruby as a teaching tool for DES, but not for production 
runs unless you're only simulating toy systems.  As much as I love Ruby 
and am twisting people's arms to get them to look at it, the "orders of 
magnitude slower" aspect really hurts here.

--paul