Some code trying out different ways to evaluate Conway's Game of Life.

Not intended for any other purpose; we are just comparing the raw performance of basic and not-so-basic algorithms. This means we have butchered the golly algorithms to remove the rendering and interactivity features.

To build, just type make.

Sample run:

./lifealgo -w 2048 -h 2048 -m 200 -r qlife

Algorithms that should work are:

array array2 array3 array4 avx2 avx22 avx23 bitpar bitpar2 bitpar3 hlife qlife lifelib ulifelib list list2 list3 list8x8 list16x16 lookup lookup2 lookup4 nybble sse sse2 sse3 tree

Some limitations:

The following algorithm only supports even increments:

ulifelib

Only a few algorithms support multithreading.

Results are in results.html.