Experiments 01
Game of Life
Draw on the grid to add cells. Run the simulation, or switch between Rust and JavaScript to compare their execution times.
Rust · WASM · CanvasView source
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- generation
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- alive
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- peak
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- tick
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Notes
The rules
- A live cell with fewer than two neighbors dies.
- A live cell with two or three neighbors survives.
- A live cell with more than three neighbors dies.
- A dead cell with exactly three neighbors is born.
Why WASM
Every generation touches every cell and its eight neighbors. Rust does that on a contiguous buffer with no allocation; JavaScript can read the result straight out of linear memory, and the canvas uses that buffer to draw the cells.