6 Aug 2012 04:48
Questions and Feature Requests
Mark M <slashing75 <at> hotmail.com>
2012-08-06 02:48:15 GMT
2012-08-06 02:48:15 GMT
Here are a few questions/requests. Answers/feedback/discussion are encouraged.
Request #1:
Would it be possible to modify the "yield get" statement to allow for passing args
and/or kwargs to the filter function in addition to the store's buffer? This would be
particularly useful for creating functions that return an object with a specific attribute.
Request #2:
It seems that monitors (python lists) can occupy a lot of memory for simulations with
lots of observations. Allthough I have not yet used it, it sounds like Stefan's collectors
module seems to offer a solution by allowing one to write to disk in HDF5 or excel format.
Q1: Is there a big tradeoff in speed by choosing to write to HDF5 compared to
holding values in memory in a python list?
Q2: I find myself using monitored resources/stores/levels much more frequently
than just plain monitors. The ability to set "monitored=True" is a big productivity
enhancement over having to manually code observations each time a resource changes
state. Would it be possible to allow the modeler to specify the storage method for
monitored resources/stores/levels so they can balance between speed & memory usage?
Perhaps this could be accomplished by integrating collectors into SimPy. I know this was
one possibility that was previously discussed.
Request #3:
A while back Norm Matloff and his students did a rather detailed study on the speed of
various data structures for event lists ("Revisiting the Issue of Performance Enhancement
in DES"). This included implementations in pure python and in C. Klaus wrote that he had
only considered the implementations in pure python and after some experimentation found
a way to further improve upon the ideas using heapq. I am guessing that brings us to
where we are today.
Q1: Has there been any further discussion about the possibility of a version of SimPy
that is partially coded in C for faster execution?
- Mark
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