Using chains and groups to make GPSS more efficient

  • Authors:
  • Donald Ingerman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WSC '81 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This presentation will attempt to demonstrate the capability inherent in GPSS beyond the original intent of the language developers. For the efficient use of GPSS it is necessary to determine what you want to do and then determine how best to represent it. It is often necessary to change the perspective of the problem—e.g., model the buffer management problem rather than the data-base management problem—to effect a simple and efficient solution. The effective application of user chains in all their different aspects can appreciably reduce the analyst's efforts and at the same time increase the efficiency of the simulation. This position was demonstrated in a head-to-head competition with SIMULA and a GPSS/360 equivalent (4). It required eight times longer to complete the task using a traditional implementation in GPSS 1100.