Game-of-Life-in-Go

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Two implementations of Conway's Game of Life in GoLang using a concurrent approach with the following paradigms.

• Memory Sharing
• Message Passing

The benchmarks/performance differences of both concurrent solutions against a baseline sequential solution can be seen in benchmarks.txt.

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How to Run

To run the program you will need to have Go installed in version 1.12.9 or higher and correct configurations in IntelliJ/your preferred IDE.

You will also need to add the following lines to your .profile file by entering nano ~/.profile in the command line:

export PATH=$PATH:/us/local/go/bin

export GOPATH=$HOME/go

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Save the file and enter source ~/.profile in the command line.

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Makefile commands:

make gol: runs the program. During the running of the program you can pause, save an image of the current state and quit the program using the following terminal inputs:

• ctrl-p
• ctrl-s
• ctrl-q

make test: runs the the program against the test file to check for correct logic.

make bench: runs all the tests before benchmarking. Then outputs the comparisson of CPU usage and runtime against the sequential solution.

You can view the input and output images in the images folder.