On 06/25/2015 08:25 AM, Sturla Molden wrote:
On 25/06/15 16:31, Nick Coghlan wrote:
3. The potential for collisions between objects means it isn't an embarrassingly parallel problem where the different computational threads can entirely ignore the existence of the other threads
Well, you can have a loop that updates all particles, e.g. by calling a coroutine associated with each particle, and then this loop is an embarrassingly parallel problem. You don't need to associate each particle with its own thread.
It is bad to teach students to use one thread per particle anyway. Suddenly they write a system that have thousands of threads.
Speaking as a novice to this area, I do understand that what we learn with may not be (and usually isn't) production-ready code, I do see Nick's suggestion as being one that is easy to understand, easy to measure, and good for piquing interest. At least, I'm now interested. :) (look ma! bowling for circles!) -- ~Ethan~