Re: code

[D. D. Donalson]

Well, at least that explains the previous email.  I have to admit that I was
wondering what I had missed, because I sure as heck didn't understand it!
:-)

I'll be interested in seeing the model at Swarmfest.

BTW: Marcus, I am still chasing that crash bug.  It has something to do with
opening files, writing to them, and them closing them.  It may be the oddest
bug I have ever chased because the data instrumentation procedure is totally
static.  It does the same thing every call, yet the crash takes at least 200
calls (but as many as several thousand.)  Whether I call the routine every
step or every 10 steps seems to make little difference.  I isolated the
fopens and fcloses without fprintfs and the bug went away.  I can't think of
why it should be an out of memory problem because I ran two instances of the
model in parallel and with additional memory loading and it didn't seem to
affect the results.  I am to the point of wondering if this is machine/OS
dependent and am sending the code to a WIN200 machine.  I have written large
numbers of data instrumentation routines, some much more complex than my
present problem, and never seen anything like this.  Anyway, just felt like
posting my frustration to someone who understands.

Cheers,

   D4

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: code


> >>>>> "PP" == Patelli Paolo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> PP> Perrone is also the only agent that has the antidote against the
> PP> "D" factor...
>
> Ahem, as you can see, some of us researchers here at SFI took a long
> lunch today!  ;-)
>
> In case you're wondering, this message concerns my Java model of the
> Swarm Development Group
> (http://www.swarm.org/csss-tutorial/foil64.html).  We were discussing
> how to enhance it for the larger Swarm community.  Right now there are
> agents for Alex Lancaster, Glen Ropella, a half-working Chris Langton
> agent, generic users, and myself.. so it is kind of limited.
>
> We were thinking about extending it for the SwarmFest party.  But now
> [AHEM] the cat is out of the bag no thanks to Paolo's mistaken post!  ;-)
> Learn to use a mail program, Paolo!  :-) :-)
>
> The "D" (depression) factor refers to my cheery personality for
> those that haven't met me.  In Winnie the pooh terminology,
> Alessandro Perrone is to Tigger as I am to Eeyore.
>
> But, hey, since the topic has come up here, maybe some Swarm users would
> like to contribute implementations of themselves for my model?
>
> We now return to your regularly scheduled broadcasting.  :-)
>
>
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