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If you do a second edition, I would love a chapter on Life implementations, particularly how to implement a Life simulator that can execute these enormous patterns efficiently.



There's definitely plenty of material for a Volume II book (and several volumes after that, for that matter). At the moment, though, Nathaniel and I think that it might be somebody else's turn to write those!

  https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=136037#p136037
Definitely check out this blog series by Eric Lippert in the meantime, though:

  https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Tutorials/Coding_Life_simulators




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