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Subject: Re: Data Structure Zealotry...

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 19:54:37 11/19/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 20:32:27, Joel wrote:

>What confuses me is that a lot of people here get very involved in these data
>structure zealotry discussions! I read numbers such as a 'factor of 2' being
>thrown around here and there, but don't fully understand the importance? Isn't
>the branching factor in chess suffiently high enough for these factors to make
>only a small difference to the programs chess playing performance?

Yes. Everyone but Vincent seems to understand this. It seems there are several
computer science 101 things he doesn't understand, from what I've read today.



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