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Python has many excellent simulation frameworks including [SimPy](https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [MESA](https://mesa.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html), which make it easy to conduct simulations for research and experimental purposes. Fast Life is not intended to be a simulation framework in the same way, instead Fast Life is designed to answer the question: \"Can Python be used to create extremely large scale simulations\"? To this end, Fast Life implements a seemingly simple simulation: [Conway's Game of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) -- but scales it up to massive proportions. We then explore several different implementations including:\n\n1. Pure Python Sequential\n2. Pure Python Multiprocessing\n3. C-bindings Sequential\n4. C-bindings Parallel\n\nEach of these implementations will be benchmarked with significantly sized worlds and the same random seeds to determine how their performance scales. Please see [fastlife.readthedocs.io](https://fastlife.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for more details and the complete write up on the documentation.\n\n## Quick Start\n\nInstall the package and the command line tool using the Python package manager as follows:\n\n```\n$ pip install fastlife\n```\n\nAlternatively, if you're interested in development, you can download the repository, cd into it and install locally with:\n\n```\n$ git clone https://github.com/bbengfort/fastlife.git\n$ cd fastlife\n$ pip install -e .\n```\n\nNote that if you're developing, you should probably set up a virtualenv and all of that good stuff before doing this step. 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