Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:45:37 08/21/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 22:03:13, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: >I was about to spend long hours (rather days) doing nearly-impossible speed >optimizations on the latter, when I start wondering if it's really worth the >effort, since this generation function is probably called very few times >compared to the "normal" one most of the time, and maybe an increase of speed >-say 20%- in this function will have a negligible speed improvement during >search in a normal game. It wouldn't be the first time that I waste a lot of >time just to realize that my program can reach a certain depth in 5 secs instead >of 5.001 sec! You need to use some good profiling tools before spending much effort on speed optimizations. Simple guessing is rarely an effective software engineering method.
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