It has been a while since I have posted an article, but that’s what happens when you graduate
and start work.

Anyways, fear not I have great news. Due to work, I have been learning .NET C# and absolutely love the language and the polish feel it has. I had so much fun learning C# that I have decided to start porting MUSE over to the .NET framework. Soon MUSE will be able to run on Window Clusters! There will be many features not include in MUSE c++ version. The feature list is not finalized, but I am in the early phase and currently have bare framework up and working. However, this does not include parallel simulations yet! Stay tuned for more updates.

MUSE was leaking memory in two different areas of the kernel. Events that were grabbed from the wire were not properly freed. The second leak was the events that were created during initialization of the agents. To reduce the memory footprint of MUSE we avoided duplicating each events and just used pointers. This required creating a reference counting system. Handling the leaks involved making sure all increase of reference counter match a decrease of the reference counter. This can get very tricky in a code base that runs in parallel. Currently, MUSE is in beta Version 0.2 and this leak plug is one of the few changes being made before version 0.3 is ready.

1. Creating a project – this creates all necessary directories for muse to function correctly
2. Creating Agents – now you can generate Agent classes with stub methods for you to directly implement. This includes all necessary #include definitions.
3. Creating States – now you can generate State classes with stub methods for you to directly implement. This includes all necessary #include definitions.
4. Creating Events – now you can generate Event classes with stub methods for you to directly implement. This includes all necessary #include definitions.

For the next release I am working on ability to generate a Makefile for the user’s project. Also, when a project is created I am working on aumtomatically generating the main class with the calls to the Simulation class already set. My hope is to get far enough to have a project that can compile.

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• Create Project Directories and sub-directories for the various classes.
• I had to generate my main c++ file.
• I had to setup my agent classes to subclass from the Agent class.
• I had to setup my event classes to subclass from the Event class.
• I had to setup my state classes to subclass from the State class.

These task can be automated and should shave off much needed time, which should leave the developer to the good parts I don’t have an exact timeline, but I am pushing to get this feature out the door before the beta release! Have you ever created a code generator? Consider leaving me some tips and hints, this will be my first time, and right now I am thinking of using python. What do you think?