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Cimba: Fast Discrete Event Simulation in C

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A new discrete event simulation library called Cimba, written in C, has emerged, promising significant performance gains. Cimba leverages stackful coroutines for efficient concurrency within simulation trials, and employs multithreading via POSIX pthreads for parallel execution. Initial benchmarks reveal impressive speeds, running an M/M/1 queue model 45 times faster than SimPy with Python multiprocessing.