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Subject: Re: How to program search timeout ?

Author: David Eppstein

Date: 10:36:00 02/05/98

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On February 05, 1998 at 10:41:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
> ...  normal MUL/DIV instructions are slow.

MUL and DIV are not the same.

I've found that in the environment I'm using (a Power PC, running
Apple's release of Java), DIV is really really slow but MUL isn't so
bad.

So I've found it helpful in my evaluation function to include some
ratios e.g. of material, but I replace all the divisions with table
lookups.  The multiplications I'm less worried about.



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