Fast Game of Life Simulation

This repository provides code to perform extremely fast simulation of dense Game of Life instances. It is accompanied by this blogpost.

How to Run Tests

You can choose to select what implementation to test by providing up to one feature.

# Test the `trivial` implementation.
cargo test --release

# Test the `simd`, `cuda` or `opencl` implementation.
cargo test --release --features simd
cargo test --release --features cuda
cargo test --release --features opencl

How to Run Benchmarks

The basic benchmark provided steps a grid a given number of times. Depending on the implementation, the grid-size and/or number of steps may need to be tweaked due to time constraints.

# Bench the `trivial` implementation.
cargo bench

# Bench the `simd`, `cuda` or `opencl` implementation.
cargo bench --features simd
cargo bench --features cuda
cargo bench --features opencl