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Subject: Re: Any idea's on how long it takes to learn C++, then create a chessmonster

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 07:45:30 12/12/01

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On December 10, 2001 at 19:39:06, David Hanley wrote:

>Sure.  I think in a month or two my lisp program will be solid/strong enough to
>make it interesting for people to look at.

I hope to make my program available some day, too.

>There's disadvantages to doing it in lisp, mostly in the area of speed.  But i
>think that worst it's a 2X penalty.

Seems like a fair estimate, IHMO.

>Hashing takes a bit of thought, because there's generally no cheap "big >integer."

I use a struct containing two fixnums.  Seems to work well for me.  A
bigger problem is that there is no simple, efficient method for implementing
bitboards ...

Tord




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