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Subject: Re: General efficiency question

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 01:03:46 04/22/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 03:46:08, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Whenever I can choose between
>
>(a) write my programs in a clean/readable way
>(b) optimize to get the last 5% in speed

Oops, I think the proportion should be from 50-500%, up to the gap between
skills when someone starts and when he becomes a computer chess expert ;)

For example, a my friend reported that he doubled speed of TSCP just by
programming technique (but it will not be simple for beginers).

>
>I chose (a) so far. YMMV.
>
>Note: Translated to a chess engine, the 5% speedup would be 3 ELO? :)
>
>Sargon



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