Table 6 Performance comparison of Sequential, Lock-Based, TVar and TArray Sugarscape implementations under varying cores with 50 × 50 environment and 500 initial agents
From: A tale of lock-free agents: towards Software Transactional Memory in parallel Agent-Based Simulation
Cores | Sequential | Lock-Based | TVar | TArray |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 25.2 (0.36) | 21.0 (0.12) | 21.1 (0.25) | 42.0 (2.20) |
2 | – | 20.0 (0.12) | 22.2 (0.21) | 24.5 (1.07) |
3 | – | 21.9 (0.19) | 23.6 (0.12) | 19.7 (1.05) |
4 | – | 24.0 (0.17) | 25.2 (0.16) | 18.9 (0.58) |
5 | – | 26.7 (0.17) | 31.0 (0.24) | 20.3 (0.87) |
6 | – | 29.3 (0.57) | 35.2 (0.12) | 21.2 (1.49) |
7 | – | 30.0 (0.12) | 38.7 (0.42) | 21.0 (0.41) |
8 | – | 31.2 (0.29) | 49.0 (0.41) | 21.1 (0.64) |