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Subject: Re: Legal move list - local or global variable?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:42:08 05/13/02

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On May 13, 2002 at 09:28:32, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Whats wrong with
>
>move MovesArray[MAX_MOVES][MAX_SEARCH_DEPTH]
>
>as global ?
>
>That will not get overwritten :)
>
>Georg

And why should this be better than

move MovesArray[MAX_MOVES] as a local variable in search()?

The global approach is almost always worse. (not in NPS, but from a design POV)
For example if you want to add SMP later, the local variable is much simpler.

Sargon



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