Author: Carmelo Calzerano
Date: 11:52:16 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 14:47:48, Carmelo Calzerano wrote: >On December 10, 2001 at 12:36:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On December 10, 2001 at 12:24:07, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >> >>>That can be debated. I would not want to give that title to any programmer. Did >>>you consider Dr. Bob Hyatt ? his crafty is right there with the strongest. He >>>does not dedicate his time to his program, further his code by his choice not >>>optimized for speed, preferring to just keep the code in a form which allows him >>>to try things easily without worrying too much about secondary affects. >> >>I do not agree. >> >>If Robert decides to keep his code in a flexible form so he can >>try and change things easily, then that is his decision. If that >>makes his program slower, then that is a direct effect of that >>design decision. >> >>If Frans Morsch decides to write Fritz in such a way that the only >>way of adding a new eval parameter is to rewrite Fritz entirely, >>but it makes the program 3x faster as any competitor, then that is >>his decision. If that makes Fritz impossible to improve, then that >>is a direct effect of his design decision. >> >>Making a design decision can never be an excuse. I agree. But don't forget that Crafty's code has to be enough clean and easy to read, to allow people like you and myself to understand it without much pain... This leaves commercial chess programmers much more freedom with optimizations, at least IMHO :-) Regards, Carmelo
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