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Speed

This is the number Tierran virtual machine instructions per second executed, calculated during the last million instructions executed. Since the Tierra process runs as a low priority background process, the digital organisms only get left-over CPU cycles. This variable is a key measure of their energy supply.



Thomas S.Ray
Tue Jan 14 16:09:05 JST 1997