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Subject: Re: Automatic move sorting with piece list

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 10:05:58 06/03/05

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On June 02, 2005 at 22:05:10, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 02, 2005 at 20:51:03, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:
>
>>If I reinsert a captured piece into the piece list it is done
>>so at the beginning. This has the result that the pieces in the
>>heart of the action move to the front of the list.
>>
>>I noticed that the resulting order has much better search
>>performance than without such a list and where pieces are
>>searched randomly.
>>
>>It's an unintended but beneficial LRU sorting.
>
>Separate piece lists by type and color.
>
>Better than a single piece list of all pieces.
>
>IMO-YMMV.


Why?
/Peter

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