Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:38:02 11/16/00
hi,
i recently moved from borland C 5.5 to visual C 6.0 professional which resulted
in a 10% speed increase in my checkers program - this helps answer a question i
asked recently about 'best compilers'.
i have another question about speed: i'm using large arrays for different
things, hash-xoring, bit-counting, some arrays in the evaluation etc. i noticed
that the final speed of my program depends on how i declare them - but the
behavior seems rather erratic. does anybody know if there should be a difference
between declaring globals like this:
int large_array[BIG_NUMBER];
or
int *large_array;
followed by a malloc in the initialization?
and when i'm using an array in the evaluation function, should there be a
difference between declaring the array as either a global array, or
alternatively declaring it in the function as static int array={1,2,3,...}?
thanks for your advice
martin
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