As far as making the simulation more accurate, there are many ways I could go.

I suggest you go to a near-by university and observe people's habbits getting on and off elevators (as well as finding out how the elevators operate), calculating how long people usually wait for an elevator to come down before leaving ... etc.

(Or if that doesn't strike you as fun, or you don't have several weeks ... :), you could always check out Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. I don't have the books here as a reference, but I believe it is either the first or second one. Knuth does just what I described above--memory permitting, of course. Its pretty informative if you have the books or can get them at a library--of course, I make no guarentees that he talks about threading, either in Perl 5.8.0 or otherwise :)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Multi-Threaded Elevator Simulator by dimmesdale
in thread Multi-Threaded Elevator Simulator by samtregar

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