[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#3899) [PATCH] Add generator which simulates plate tectonics

["Karen Yeats" <kayeats@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[kauf - Sat Mar 29 20:42:38 2003]:

> freeciv's myrand. also please review doc/CodingStyle. The note that some
> maps took ~5 minutes to generate is quite disconcerting. Please give us
> some statistics. over a range of initial conditions, what is the average
> drawing time? If the answer is larger than anywhere on the order of half a
> minute, there is no possibility that the code will be accepted. In this
> case, some approximations must be made. 

I've tried a few and I'm getting 10-30s (on a pentium 2).  Anyway real
statistics will need to be collected, but this seems to be about on the
border of what could be considered acceptable.  What this really made me
think of was that map generation is slow enough even with established
maps that especially those running freeciv on older hardware might
appreciate some feedback in the server just to know that it hasn't
gotten stuck.  With a generator like this one feedback would be more
widely useful.

Karen