Author: Ed Trice
Date: 16:52:45 06/23/04
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On June 23, 2004 at 18:30:57, Russell Reagan wrote:
>I am curious about a few design choices in Crafty. Some of the questions are
>general questions that anyone who is knowledgable could answer, so I ask this
>publicly instead of via email to Dr. Hyatt.
>
>First issue. Crafty is written with a lot of color-specific code, like:
>
>if (wtm) {
> // ...
>}
>else {
> // ...
>}
>
If you profile Crafty, you will find something like only 11% of the computation
is spent on the evaluation routine. Say you were to make this code execute twice
as fast. Then, overall, the entire program would be only 5.5% faster.
To make a big performance gain, you have to attack the bottlenecks.
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