Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:43:16 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 14:52:16, Carmelo Calzerano wrote: [snip] >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 :-) This is mistaken thinking, I believe. The better documented a program is, the easier it is for its *writer* to make improvements and optimizations. If someone wrote 100,000 lines of assembly without a single comment and then came back 3 years later, they will have no idea what they did. Chess programs are excellent because of well written algorithms. A good algorithm will beat the pants off of months of hand tweaking construcst to make those same constructs a bit faster.
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