exMARS combines the latest advance in corewar simulation technology, with
proactive performance optimizations.
Actually exMARS is a redcode simulator, just like exhaust and pMARS. In fact,
I have shamelessly taken sourcecode from pMARS, exhaust, some ideas from
qMars, a shot of optimizations, shook everything well, and garnished
everything with a high level interface for Ruby.
The resulting program has the following main features:
* Uses the parser from pMARS, so no previous parsing is necessary. At first
this was my main motivation for exMARS.
* Speed: 50% faster than pmars on a Pentium III, and often more than twice as
fast than pmars on a Pentium 4 (using gcc 3.3.1, and the same compiler
options).
* Rewritten the code in a more object oriented way, which allows different
Mars at the same time in the same program, it should also be thread save.
* To get Ruby interface you can install games/ruby-exmars port.
WWW: http://corewar.co.uk/ankerl/exmars.htm
===> The following configuration options are available for exmars-0.01_1:
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Various spelling corrections
PR: ports/175331
Submitted by: Christoph Mallon
Approved by: No objections within three weeks from any maintainer
While here, style and duplicate phrase fixes in bsdcflow pkg-descr
Submitted by: mi
The vast majority of pkg-descr files had the following format when they
had both lines:
Author: ...
WWW: ....
So standardize on that, and move them to the end of the file when necessary.
Also fix some more whitespace, and remove more "signature tags" of varying
forms, like -- name, etc.
s/AUTHOR/Author/
A few other various formatting issues
* Change option OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS to ON.
* Adjust optimizations for all architectures.
* Use optimizations if GCC >= 3.X (OSVERSION >= 500035).
* Note how to install Ruby interface.
PR: ports/84024
Submitted by: Alejandro Pulver (maintainer)
exMARS combines the latest advance in corewar simulation technology, with
proactive performance optimizations.
Actually exMARS is a redcode simulator, just like exhaust and pMARS. In fact,
I have shamelessly taken sourcecode from pMARS, exhaust, some ideas from
qMars, a shot of optimizations, shook everything well, and garnished
everything with a high level interface for Ruby.
PR: ports/83576
Submitted by: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz>
