From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-10-09T07:28:50+09:00
Subject: Re: A Real World example for Ruby to "compiled" version discussion

On 10/08/2010 06:37 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> This is an Individual Based Model (IBM) as opposed to populations that
> can be modelled as a whole with equations etc - so the simulation
> reflects this.

Traffic simulation has an analogous distinction: microscopic (traffic as 
aggregate behavior of individuals) vs. macroscopic (traffic as wave).

I keep trying to see how to use narray to express the state of your 
model, but the variable length organism list probably prevents that. 
Narray would give you so much for free, especially if part of the 
timestep transformation is linear (matrix multiplication). But that's 
probably simplistic.