Many Many (most of the time sleeping) threads. Best approach?

[ander.pijoan]

Or subclass QObject, implement each agent in that class and make them event-driven. Then you can either run all of them in a single thread or spawn a number of extra threads and move agent objects to different threads.

So for implementing this approach, you mean for example:

- Implementing the agents just as QObject.
- Add a battery of signal and slots for it to use by itself.
- Once started instead of sleeping, use a timer to invoke later a signal of its own?

Would this 10000 timers waiting for certain time to pass be a problem?

[wysota]

- Once started instead of sleeping, use a timer to invoke later a signal of its own?

Either that or rely on events (if the agent should respond upon some other agent's actions).

Would this 10000 timers waiting for certain time to pass be a problem?

No but I wouldn't do that. It's better that the object do "nothing". You can have one timer and connect every agent to that timer to provide a kind of "heartbeat" impulse.

[ander.pijoan]

Worked really well your proposed solution, thanks again