2 Apr
2011
2 Apr
'11
8:14 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Yves Parès
Given that haskell threads are lightweight, is it reasonable to lauch a thread per agent and then implement fetch and send through Chans? It will be simple to implement and to use, but if I have, say, two hundreds of really dumb (sorry, reactive ^^) agents, like ants, I will have to launch as many threads.
I don't see any problems with this approach if you have only hundreds of agents, especially because GHC 7 is a lot faster when using many threads. However, if you want hundreds of thousands of agents, maybe this won't work, but I don't really know what kinds of limits GHC has 8-). That said, it may be difficult to do better than GHC's scheduler ;-). Cheers! =) -- Felipe.