Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:22:39 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 22:51:05, Dave Gomboc wrote: >Your suggestion that their protocol is poorly thought out appears to be fully >unjustified. Or at least, you haven't provided any justification -- which would >be difficult to do, seeing as you don't know what the protocol is. > >Dave Using a DLL for this purpose has the drawbacks of: 1. It is not portable, which means porting to another OS requires implementing a different protocol, or writing your own GUI. Fortunately, the winboard protocol is easy to implement. 2. As a DLL, the engine becomes part of the GUI process, which means that if the engine crashes, the GUI crashes, and vice versa. Since not crashing is pretty much a higher priority than ANYTHING, this seems like a poorly thought out choice. I already stated both of these justifications. Maybe there are good reasons for choosing a DLL approach that outweigh the drawbacks, but most important is that the program works correctly, and from a theoretical point of view, it's better not to put all of your eggs in one basket, so to speak.
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