On Mar 5, 2015, at 16:23, Tim Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd think running asynchronously would be closer to modelling the > biology (not to mention making it easier to leverage multiple > cores), but it would also mean non-deterministic results in > anything where the results of computation were order-dependent.
Indeed. However, the main reasons I can think of for wanting a deterministic result would be debugging, testing, etc. I could use pseudo-random or even synchronous scheduling for these cases. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin [email protected] http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume San Bruno, CA, USA +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation
