Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:27:05 07/01/04
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On July 01, 2004 at 18:21:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On July 01, 2004 at 10:52:09, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>I don't see the point, where is the difference in debugging? > >When you reread your code it must look like one big hacked spaghetticode thanks >to brilliant bitboard tricks. > >So if you are trying to improve your code you won't find out which pattern is >supposed to work for you in a position X which didn't work in fact, or which >pattern is supposed to not work and does evaluate true more or less. > >Speed is nice to have of course. Fast code is good. But it must keep readable to >some extend. I learned that the hard way. You probably learn _everything_ the hard way. But in this case, many of us can read "bitboard" stuff quite naturally and easily, without getting lost... as a result, we get reasonable performance, reasonable readability (to us) and we are happy doing so...
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