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Subject: Re: Design choices in Crafty

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 13:31:56 06/24/04

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>Yes i mean such code size issues, three bytes more per load store ;-)
>At least one should try to keep the most often used locals inside this -128/127
>range. Maybe POGO handles such issues. 4KByte and more requires some call
>checkstack for paging reasons. I tend to put things on an explicit stack,
>specially if items are still less than 128 sized.

Of course more important is whether one need some data of previous plies.
Direct ply-wise index access on an explicit array of nodes versus traversing
nodes on stack via pointer from node to parent nodes.

Gerd



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