On 28 Feb 2010, at 20:38, Lee Spector wrote:
that just published a special issue on parallel evolutionary
algorithms, so I know of a lot of options there! -- but for now I
just want the basic generational algorithm to be expressed as
naturally as possible in Clojure. There seem to be many other
options for how to do this using Clojure's concurrency concepts...
Does what I've done seem to be the natural Clojure approach?
To me, yes. Another option would be to store the programs in each
generation in a standard vector and run the evaluation and breeding
functions in a (future ...). Compared to agents, you would gain the
advantage of controlling the number of threads being used, so you
could optimize for performance. On the downside, you pretty much have
to define the number of threads yourself as well, so you might lose in
simplicity and clarity.
On the development environment front: Is anyone contemplating
creating a Mac OS X "Clojure in a Box"? I would be an enthusiastic
user. If it could have roughly the feature set of the old Macintosh
Common Lisp IDE
If that's MCLIDE you are talking about, a version with partial Clojure
support has just been announced:
http://mclide.in-progress.com/
Konrad.
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