Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:10:56 01/20/06
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On January 20, 2006 at 14:31:52, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 20, 2006 at 13:45:36, James Swafford wrote: > >>On January 20, 2006 at 04:59:11, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>In case it is not clear: I have no plans of ever writing a parallel version >>>of Glaurung 1.x. My current code base has grown too big, ugly and unwieldy, >>>and a major rewrite is long overdue. >>> >> >>Already? Didn't you just rewrite Gothmog -> Glaurung about a year ago? > >About 18-20 months ago, IIRC. I'm an awful C programmer, and my code >deteriorates alarmingly quickly when I hack on it for a long time. If I >continue >doing chess programming, I'll probably have to keep doing complete rewrites >every couple of years or so. > >The current rewrite cannot be compared to the Gothmog -> Glaurung >transition, by the way. Gothmog and Glaurung are two rather different >programs. Glaurung 2 will be very similar to Glaurung 1, just cleaner, >more compact, and probably with SMP support. I think that Tord's approach is absolutely fantastic. It's just that most of us are too lazy to do it that way. Clearly, it is better than patching the old stuff up.
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