Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 12:56:51 11/13/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 11:55:45, Bob Durrett wrote: > >[Prompted by Windows vs Linux threads.] > >Some people do their chess programming in Visual Basic, and it would be no >surprise if their chess programs were slow when compared to those programmed in >C or C++. > >The use of FORTRAN as a programming language, for creating chess engines, seems >to have been abandoned a long time ago. Presumably for good reasons. > >Someone once said here, at CCC, that choice of programming language is mostly a >matter of personal preference: "If someone learns C before anything else, they >will prefer programming in C simply because they feel more comfortable in C." > >And yet, with the pressure to produce the highest rated chess engine, it would >seem that programmers would select "the very best" language [and the very best >computer] if they were able to use that language. > >If it is true that "the Fritz people" [F.M.?] use assembly language to avoid >"optimizers," then maybe that is the best language of all, other than machine >language. [Of course, no one would use maching language! : ) ] > >A person who spends all day at work using a particular computer will wish to >program their chess engines in the language they use at work. That is >understandable, especially if they wish to produce a chess engine to use on >their "work computer" during breaks at work. But isn't there a penalty for >doing that? In other words, doesn't that mean that the chess engine may not be >as fast as it could have been otherwise? > >Since choice of language pretty much dictates the compilers, then it seems that >one would chose languages which do not require inferior compilers. Maybe Linux >is a poor choice of language for just that reason? > >Bob D. Would it be possible to use Visual Basic .net and get the same speed as Visual C .net? The languages are different, but the compiled code can be just as efficient regardless of the language used, since the backend compiler is the same across the .net languages... Yes or no? Roger
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