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Brings to mind images of Conway's Game of Life, with computations moving about a grid of memory as they create and destroy new bits of data.
by austin_y 9y ago
Brings to mind images of Conway's Game of Life, with computations moving about a grid of memory as they create and destroy new bits of data.
- zardo 9y agoOr Core War. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
- Someone 9y agoAnd that brings to mind http://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=HashLife http://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=HashLife, an example (of many) of an algorithmic improvement that gives a way higher speed up than parallellizing and throwing hardware at a problem.
- tripzilch 9y agoHashlife is a brilliant algorithm. For anyone not familiar (and vaguely interested in Conway's GOL), highly recommend reading up about it. I found it mildly mindblowing :)