weird bug I'm hitting

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weird bug I'm hitting

I'm hitting a bizarre bug in either Robocode or my JVM. Basically, I calculate the enemy's position each tick, and on successive ticks, the distance between the positions is greater than 8, which should be impossible. Frequently it's like 11 or 15, occasionally more like 40 or 70. Can anyone else duplicate this? It seems to only happen when running minimized, so I don't think it's any issue with my code. And I'm checking that e.getTime() is only 1 apart, so it's not skipped turns. And it is happening in 1v1 with a radar lock.

For a while this came in the form of thinking my freshly rewritten scan interpolation had a bug. (Which seemed a lot like the "bug" in the old interpolation code...)

This is the right calculation of enemy location, right?

 Point2D.Double enemyLocation = 
     project(new Point2D.Double(getX(), getY()), Utils.normalAbsoluteAngle(
         e.getBearingRadians() + getHeadingRadians()),
         e.getDistance());
 public static Point2D.Double project(Point2D.Double sourceLocation,
     double angle, double length) {
   return project(sourceLocation, Math.sin(angle), Math.cos(angle), length);
 }
 public static Point2D.Double project(Point2D.Double sourceLocation,
     double sinAngle, double cosAngle, double length) {
   return new Point2D.Double(sourceLocation.x + sinAngle * length,
       sourceLocation.y + cosAngle * length);
 }

    Voidious08:12, 2 June 2012

    Works fine for me (mac).

      Wompi09:09, 2 June 2012
       

      Your code here looks fine. Have you tried a simple radar + test bot?

        Skilgannon12:33, 2 June 2012
         

        Hm, the code looks fine to me. Can you perhaps have Robocode save a replay file, and make note of the ticks your robot notices things moving too fast? That way we could compare this to Robocode's internal representation of things, so it would be easier to tell where the problem is.

          Rednaxela16:14, 2 June 2012