Author: Ed Trice
Date: 16:52:45 06/23/04
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On June 23, 2004 at 18:30:57, Russell Reagan wrote: >I am curious about a few design choices in Crafty. Some of the questions are >general questions that anyone who is knowledgable could answer, so I ask this >publicly instead of via email to Dr. Hyatt. > >First issue. Crafty is written with a lot of color-specific code, like: > >if (wtm) { > // ... >} >else { > // ... >} > If you profile Crafty, you will find something like only 11% of the computation is spent on the evaluation routine. Say you were to make this code execute twice as fast. Then, overall, the entire program would be only 5.5% faster. To make a big performance gain, you have to attack the bottlenecks.
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