mixed

A program simulating rings of interconnected actors passing messages.

How to Compile

With a minimal Pony installation, in the same directory as this README file run ponyc. You should see content building the necessary packages, which ends with:

...
Generating
 Reachability
 Selector painting
 Data prototypes
 Data types
 Function prototypes
 Functions
 Descriptors
Optimising
Writing ./mixed.o
Linking ./mixed

How to Run

Once mixed has been compiled, in the same directory as this README file run ./mixed. You should see a message showing the order of arguments -- number of rings, number of actors in each rin, number of messages to pass, and number of times to repeat.

$ ./mixed
mixed OPTIONS
  N   number of rings
  N   number of actors in each ring
  N   number of messages to pass around each ring
  N   number of times to repeat

To create a run which does work we must provide these arguments.

./mixed 100 50 25 10

The above run has 100 rings with 50 actors in each passing 25 messages 10 times. You will notice there is no output to the console from this program.

Program Modifications

Modify the program to use default values when no arguments are passed, but fail if non-numeric arguments are passed.

./mixed

./mixed 100 50 25 nonsense
Error: "nonsense" is not a valid arguement for number of times to repeat.
mixed OPTIONS
  N   number of rings
  N   number of actors in each ring
  N   number of messages to pass around each ring
  N   number of times to repeat