Just submitted an update to my Game of Life app.
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I've added a few nice features to it and massively massively increased the performance.
The new features are...
* You can now change the speed at which the simulation runs. The current version runs at 10 GPS (generationns per second). You can now change it to run anywhere from 5 seconds per generation to 60GPS.
* You can now toggle edge wrapping on and off.
The main changes are "under the hood" though. I wouldn't have been able to just ramp the speed up to 60GPS as the sim and the drawing just wouldn't handle it. I've had to optimise the GOL engine and the way it draws to get the best performance out of it.
Now it uses bit operations to speed up the way it calculates whether a cell should be alive or dead in the next generation and it also keeps track of which parts of the map are changing. It only checks cells that either changed themselves or have neighbours who changed in the last generation step.
So, if there is a single cell that keeps flashing on and off then the whole generation step only checks 9 cells.
Very pleased with it. Except I've had to pull it as I found a tiny bug but that will be fixed and resubmitted tonight
So far I've had about 15 5 star reviews (from around the world) and I don't want to let a tiny, easy to fix bug ruin it.