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Subject: Re: How many program have 2 function of makemove for white and for black?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:30:16 04/15/03

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On April 15, 2003 at 14:05:23, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:

>Maybe I'm saying something stupid, but having extra functions might reduce the
>efectiveness of the cache. My previous chess program had 4 functions as well,
>and wasn't really a big improvement, it was messier and extra work for me, so
>I'm using two again.
>I don't think the compiler is going to do a worse job anyway. Try checking your
>complied assembly code for optimizations, it works for me.
>
>Jaime

I do not know much about the cache and I also know nothing about asembler.
I know from experience that there were cases when extra functions
helped movei to be faster.

Uri



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