Antoine de Maricourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can develop very quickly 'quick and dirty' code to test new ideas
> in C++, and recode it in a very clean / organized / modular / robust
> ... code later if needed. This ability is not coming from the
> programming langage itself...
I beg to di
But as a chess programmer, I disagree with your statement about orders
of magnitude. If your chess program is 30% faster than mine, all else
being equal, you have a measurably stronger chess program and you will
probably win even a fairly short match. In a highly competitive chess
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On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:15 -0800, Dave Dyer wrote:
> Guys, keep your eyes on the prize. If your only problem
> is that you need to double your speed, all you have to do
> is wait 1.5 years.
>
> All this talk of optimizing speed by tweaking language xx to be
> more like assembly language (or C)
Guys, keep your eyes on the prize. If your only problem
is that you need to double your speed, all you have to do
is wait 1.5 years.
All this talk of optimizing speed by tweaking language xx to be
more like assembly language (or C) is almost completely a waste
of time.
Likewise, algoritmic opt
