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A hard lesson in software engineering for everyone
« on: August 30, 2014, 06:16:38 PM »
Apparently, the pay off for having a more accurate biological system in darwinbots (talking about the introduction of chloroplasts) was slim because I never considered the exponential impact it will have on performance. Should have shut the idea down when I have seen it. Lesson learned.

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Re: A hard lesson in software engineering for everyone
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 06:26:35 PM »
Specifically, I have never imagined how much extra code it will take to balance it out in a user friendly way. That was the reason the performance tanked, not the introduction of chloroplasts themselves.