Swarm User Guide
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Part III. Advanced Topics

Table of Contents
13. Anything C can do, Swarm Can Do Better
13.1. Managing command line parameters
13.2. Using C Functions in Swarm
13.3. Examples of Useful Functions: getInt and getDouble
13.4. Dynamic Memory Allocation and Swarm Zones
13.5. Dropping Unused Objects
14. The Swarm Collections Library
14.1. Overview: the List, Map and Array Protocols
14.2. Choosing between Lists, Maps, and Arrays
14.3. Using Swarm Arrays
14.4. Swarm Maps
14.5. Accessing Collections with Indices
15. Using the Random Library
15.1. Built-in Random Number Distributions
15.2. Overview of the Random Library
15.3. The Random Number Generators
15.3.1. How to use the default random generator
15.3.2. A list of generators in Swarm
15.3.3. A note on starting seeds
15.4. The Distributions in Swarm
15.4.1. Classes that adopt the ProbabilityDistribution Protocol
15.4.2. Matching generator and distribution objects
15.4.3. Setting numerical parameters of distribution objects
15.5. How to Create Other Random Number Distributions
16. Serialization
16.1. Using the LispArchiver to manage simulation parameters
16.1.1. Using the Standard lispAppArchiver
16.1.2. Using Custom LispArchiver Instances
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