On 28 July 2016 at 09:04, Carl Ranson wrote:
> I've seen some code that suggests that chan interface{} is a valid.
> what can you send on that?
Anything.
The receiver has to know what to do with it,
of course.
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ok, fair enough. I guess I'm just used to thinking of concurrency in
database terms where locking is involved.
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Anyone got any thoughts on the way I've used channels to synchronize
things?
Would I be much better off using chan bool instead of chan string for
signaling?
I've seen some code that suggests that chan interface{} is a valid. what
can you send on that?
thanks,
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| one of the reasons I used pointers here was to avoid each goroutine from
fighting over access to the boards array. they only care about the adjacent
cells after all.
What's to fight over? Concurrent reads are no problem, and the writes are
independent of one another. Rather than storing the p
On Thursday, 28 July 2016 03:40:39 UTC+3, Carl Ranson wrote:
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> Thanks Egon,
>
> Ok, I take your point that one needs to strike a balance with the work
> done in each goroutine to achieve optimum performance.
> i understand that each goroutine doing a subblock of the board using
> bitmaps wo
"Naive" implementations of life are fun as a learning exercise, but if you
actually want to compute life you need to know about "Hashlife." It'd be
fun to see Hashlife implemented in Go.
-- Charles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
Representation
The field is typically treated as a theoret
Thanks Egon,
Ok, I take your point that one needs to strike a balance with the work done
in each goroutine to achieve optimum performance.
i understand that each goroutine doing a subblock of the board using
bitmaps would be faster, but as a learning exercise i'm keeping it simple.
In fact I
On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 15:14:13 UTC+3, Carl Ranson wrote:
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> HI all,
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> So I figured Conways game of life would be a good exercise to get my feet
> wet with go. Specifically i wanted to make the calculation of the next
> board state to be concurrent.
> I started a separate goroutine for
