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Subject: Re: to rotate or not?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:24:37 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 17:15:24, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Tom,
>
>>* Non-linked piece lists (I've discovered that linked lists are _bad_!)
>
>Hmmm - interesting.  Please do expand!  Surely you're not looping through all of
>the squares?  Maybe a static array?
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Maughan

Right, I keep a static list of the pieces on the board.

Linked lists are bad because they make life hard for the processor (for a number
of reasons) and the compiler can't do any clever optimization of them.

-Tom

• Re: to rotate or not? Dann Corbit 15:11:59 04/25/00
  • Re: to rotate or not? Tom Kerrigan 20:47:48 04/25/00
    • Re: to rotate or not? Tom Kerrigan 20:51:10 04/25/00
      • Re: to rotate or not? Dann Corbit 22:25:57 04/25/00
        • Re: to rotate or not? Tom Kerrigan 00:36:33 04/26/00

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