PyWar

War simulator in Python

Run Instructions

war.py

python war.py *times*

warOne.py (All simulations done in a single, multidimensional array.)

python warOne.py *times*

warThread.py (Simulations are distributed across processes):

python warThread.py *times*

Test results

Intel Xeon(R) CPU E5-1607 v2 @3.00GHz 4 Cores, 4 Logical Processors

Type	100 sims	1000 sims	5000 sims	10000 sims
War	1.42 s	14.20 s	73.54 s	146.60 s
WarOne	1.39 s	15.91 s	75.07 s	153.93 s
WarThread	0.84 s	5.66 s	23.82 s	49.62 s

Intel i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00 GHz 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors

Type	100 sims	1000 sims	5000 sims	10000 sims
War	0.58s	5.18 s	25.17 s	49.63 s
WarOne	0.47 s	5.44 s	25.54 s	53.45 s
WarThread	0.42 s	1.53 s	6.76 s	14.33 s

Bonus

• 50000: 70.41 s
• 100000: 138.25 s

Intel Xeon(R) CPU X7460 @2.66GHz 8 Sockets, 1 Core per Socket (VMWare)

Type	100 sims	1000 sims	5000 sims	10000 sims
War	0.98 s	10.64 s	51.97 s	104.03 s
WarOne	1.06 s	11.28 s	56.20 s	106.88 s
WarThread	0.27 s	1.51 s	6.69 s	13.61 s

Bonus

• 50000: 66.38s
• 100000: 131.56s

War Simulations in C++

The same code written in C++ to test compiled vs interpretted code

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1 Core

Type	100 sims	1000 sims	5000 sims	10000 sims	100000 sims
War	0.03 s	.36 s	1.97 s	4.86 s	56.118 s