[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12840) delay in pollution patrol (possible causes)

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12840 >

Brian Dunstan wrote:

> In any case, I think this is happening because, when
> worker assignments are being given, it iterates
> through the workers, and the first worker that finds
> that cleanup job to be its best use of time, reserves
> the square.  This is done by setting a bit in
> ptile->assigned.

Indeed.

This is just an example of a general problem that assignments are done
by worker not by tile.  In the client this leads to a problem because
workers tend to move a long long way to do their work - leading to
unnecessarily long animations.  And overall it's not very efficient.

I suspect there's an algorithm that will solve this problem optimally.
But I don't know what it is just yet.

-jason