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Subject: Re: Piecelist or bitboard

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:09:31 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 04:15:26, JW de Kort wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Currently i'am using a piecelist to keep track of the locations of the pieces in
>my 0x88 based program. Iám thinking about removing this list and replacing it by
>a bitboard to keep track of the piecelocations of white pieces and black pieces.
>I'am wondering of anybody else does this (i think some one will) and if this is
>a good improvement to spees up my engine which is terrably slow. I have good
>expierences with other bitboards in my program. I already use bitboard to do the
>pawn evaluations and i'am thinkin about gradually removing the 0x88 stuff to
>replace it with bitboards
>
>any help appreciated

Have you used a profiler to check where the program is spending most of its
time?

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GCP



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