On Friday, June 6, 2014 10:33:04 PM UTC-5, Mars0i wrote: > > On Friday, June 6, 2014 2:26:25 PM UTC-5, Linus Ericsson wrote: >> >> Here I assume that the incoming calls to agents aren't guaranteed to >> strictly ordered among different agents, even though the agents reside in >> one of two thread-pools (the send- vs. send-off pools). If two agents sent >> messages that arrived a third agent in different order, the rng-state would >> differ between the runs). Please correct me if I'm wrong on this one. >> > > No, there's no issue about the order in which messages are received, I > believe. Communication is effectively simultaneous, because all sending > happens in one step, and all receiving happens in another step. > > (Here are the details, if you're interested: Each Person random chooses > other Persons to send a message to, and then randomly chooses a message to > send. The pmap over the Persons ends, and all of the messages are > collected into a single hashmap. Then a separate pmap goes through each > Person, applying the messages in the hashmap that are supposed to be sent > to that Person. Thus, although Persons perform their work in some order, > the sending and the receiving of the messages are separated, so that > message sending and receipt occurs as if all messages were sent > simultaneously. In the next timestep, the messages received by a Person > affect the probabilities that various messages will be chosen to send to > another Person.) >
One more point about the detailed description: The immediate effects of messages on a Person who receives them are commutative (literally: they are additions). Nothing else happens until all of the immediate effects of all messages are applied. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
