From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-02-09T14:09:12+09:00
Subject: Re: calling random

On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:56:04 -0500, Boris Schmid wrote:

> Boris Schmid wrote:
>> Am I correct if I remember that using send is quite expensive in
>> cpu-time? Especially when I am using it millions of times.. $pop is
>> about 5000 hosts large.
>> 
>> 
> Ah. It's not that bad. send("fib",2) is about twice as slow as fib(2).
> So I lose 2 minutes in 2 hours of simulation, which is fine.
> 
> Thanks for the answers!

It should be a bit faster if you use :fib instead of "fib", because the 
ruby runtime has to internally "fib" to :fib every time you call send().

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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