Author: David Blackman
Date: 02:02:53 09/19/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 13:51:07, Ian Osgood wrote: >Has anyone run across a chess program written in Forth? I ask because I >recently ran across an asynchronous processor design optimized for Forth >(designed by the creator of Forth, in fact) which claims 2.4 Bips (or 60 Gips >for the 25x parallel version) dissipating only 10mW. > >Link: http://www.mindspring.com/~chipchuck/25x.html > >Ian That particular chip has 384 words DRAM and 128 Words ROM for each processor. A strong chess program needs a lot more memory than that, and will spend most of its time going to the much slower off-chip ram. Also the 2400 Mips is not quite the same as other poeple would count Mips. A forth chip instruction doesn't do much. So don't expect this chip to be an unbeatable monster chess machine. The idea of doing a chess program in Forth doesn't appeal much to me, but it certainly should be possible. The best language for a chess program is usually the language the programmer knows best.
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