By the way, Howard Peelle's full Rubik's Cube paper is available for free
at:
http://www.maxhost.org/other/p255-peelle.pdf

Skip

Skip Cave
Cave Consulting LLC

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another interesting Rubik's Cube paper is Jim Weigang's "Implementing
> Rubik's Cube: An Exercise in Hybrid Programming", from the January 1986
> issue of *Computer Language* magazine. Jim implements the cube in APL,
> and allows the user to make rotations using "twist commands". He then uses
> the APL model to re-implement the core twist routines in assembly language
> using table lookup, to speed up the solution finder. The lookup tables
> were generated by the APL model. He describes a 72x speed-up in rotation
> sequences with the assembly-language routines.
>
> http://www.chilton.com/~jimw/rubik.html
>
> Skip
>
> Skip Cave
>
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