[sumo-devel] Estimation of overhead when implementing a new car-following model

[<jp...@mm...>]

Hi,

I am thinking about asking one of my university students to re-implement
his work on a car-following model into SUMO so that we can compare its
behaviour with other models implemented there.

Before I start to press on, I would like to have some (even very vague)
estimate of overheads related to this task: my impression is that all
the car-following models are built into the SUMO executable, and in
order to change anything, one has to link the whole application over and
over again (I suppose that changing something in the model does not
trigger recompilation of any substantial part of the source) which could
be sometimes quite a time-consuming exercise. What is your experience? 

My original thought before looking closer at the documentation was that
the car-following model is a kind of plug-in, a small DLL that will be
registered within the simulator and used throughout the simulation - we
have so far the only experience with building Aimsun AAPI extensions,
which are built this way, and in that case the compilation overhead is
not an issue.

Thanks,

Jan