Thanks, Stephen. How come you only post announcements to Friam? About Google, they have an advantage over my situation. They can start and stop the clock when they start and stop the application. I don't know that I can do that for agents. Also, I have no control over whether something else runs while an agent's code is running. In a side conversation it occurred to me that this might be a good application for Aspect Oriented Programming. But it would still be more work than I was hoping to do. It's strange this hasn't been considered before.
*-- Russ * On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Stephen Guerin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Russ, > > You might look at how Google App Engine tries to get a handle on this > when charging for CPU: > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html > > Josh has pointed out that there's some weird interpretations. For > instance, they quote $0.10 per cpu hour but don't specify the CPU. Is > it the canonical CPU at standard atmosphere? :-) > > Google "google app engine calculating one cpu hour" to see interesting > corner cases. > > -S > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Gary Schiltz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting idea. Most Common Lisp implementations compile to native > machine > > code, so it might not be too hard to instrument the generated code to do > > some kind of bookeeping. There are quite a few open source > implementations > > out there, e.g. Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org) or Clozure Common > Lisp > > (trac.clozure.com/ccl). > > ;; Gary > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > > > > I'm considering the development of an ABM in which the agents are charged > > for the computations they do. But I can't think of a language that > > facilitates that. I know that in most languages one can look at the > > real-time clock, but I can't think of a language in which one can look at > a > > dynamic count of (virtual) instructions executed -- or even an dynamic > > measure of the amount of CPU time devoted to executing > the instructions of > > each agent. Am I missing something obvious? Can anyone help. > > Thanks. > > > > -- Russ > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > > -- > --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... > [email protected] > 624 Agua Fria, Santa Fe, NM 87501 > office: 505.995.0206 mobile: 505.577.5828 > > redfish.com | sfcomplex.org | simtable.com | ambientpixel.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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