Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:33:52 11/28/01
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On November 28, 2001 at 02:46:01, Peter Kappler wrote: [snip] >> In short, I think >>it is silly to write chess programs in Java. If you are truly an expert, you >>might write better algorithms to make up the difference. But if that were the >>case, why wouldn't you have the good sense to have written them in C or C++ in >>the first place? > >Or the great sense to write it in Assembly? ;) A far worse decision. You would have to do a complete rewrite for each new chip. You might write tiny bits in assembly for the hottest hot-spots, but I firmly believe that it would be a tragic mistake to write the whole thing in assembly. I know that there are commercial products that do use assembly in total. These are the same ones that have a great deal of trouble making rapid changes to keep up with evolving machines and operating systems. You have to be world-class in assembly language to do as well as a modern optimizing C compiler. And then a new chip comes out and...
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