Author: Nathan Hellmers
Date: 13:37:25 11/13/02
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Can anyone provide a link to some Visual Basic chess code? Thanks, Nathan On November 13, 2002 at 15:56:51, Roger D Davis wrote: >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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