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Subject: Re: Quiescent Pruning.

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:31:40 10/07/03

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On October 07, 2003 at 15:59:00, Tord Romstad wrote:

>OK, I probably didn't read carefully enough before answering.  To me
>virtually everything seems harder or clumsier with bitboards, but I
>always assumed it was just because I'm too stupid.

Too stupid? Yeah right Tord :)

I think it only depends on which tool set makes sense to your brain. Some people
(I would think most) think better in terms of the serial nature of an 0x88-like
approach, while others think better in terms of the parallel nature of
bitboards.

Most programming for decades (until recently) has been structured and serial in
nature, so the 0x88-like approaches probably make sense to most programmers. It
took me a long time to understand the tool set that bitboards provide, and I
still feel that I'm not getting the whole picture.



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