Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 10:50:19 02/24/04
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On February 23, 2004 at 15:45:04, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 23, 2004 at 13:52:47, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>Forth... > >>It is fast, efficient... > >I have heard this about Forth. Is it really comparable to the speeds of C? I >couldn't find many benchmarks, but I did find one (from 2001). It showed Forth >(gforth) to be the same distance (~50 points) from Java (Sun's java) as Java is >from C (gcc). Python and Perl are the same distance behind Forth, and Python is >certainly not known for being fast. Python is fast for the built-in list and dictionaries and it is designed to be extended with C/C++ functions or at least this is my understanding. I've seen sometimes my chess engine getting crushed by programs running on much lower hardware configuration and one of my ideas was to write my next chess engine prototype in Python and only much later when he can beat most of medium strength engines convert it to C++. If an engine can beat many opponents running handicapped (by CPU and/or the programming language beeing slow), imagine the strength when this handicap is removed. Python is very good for fast prototyping and I think that is important for a chess engine. Just a thought, feel free to disagree :) Cheers, Andrei
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