David Doshay wrote: > My personal opinion is that way too much effort is put into > optimizations that used to be very important when memory was small, > but now is nice but not really needed. My bias is that efficiency is a > good thing as long as it does not get in the way of easily > understandable code, particularly for a new engine. I am not debating > (and do not want to start a flame war on the subject) that good data > structures lead to good programs, but I think that trying to wring > every last bit out of the stored data is silly when machines these > days have up to 8 GB of RAM.
I don't particularly disagree with what you write, but it's worth remembering that on a modern processor you might well find yourself with 32k of level 1 cache shared between two threads, so it's worth keeping an eye on the size of the main board structure. -M- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
