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Subject: Re: bitboards in java?

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 20:24:09 04/06/99

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On April 06, 1999 at 15:35:54, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>On April 06, 1999 at 14:58:42, vitor wrote:
>
>>i think i get the idea of bitboards but i dont know any C or C++ yet, i only
>>know java. so is it possible to implement bitboards in java and if so, how would
>>i do move generation with it?
>
>Vitor,
>
>I believe you can do bitboards in java.  JBuilder has a class for
>Big Integers with XOR, AND, and OR methods.  I have not used them
>so I do not know if these methods would be efficient.
>
>Larry.

A long in java is a 64 bit signed integer, an unsigned long is a 64 bit unsigned
integer.  You can play with these using the normal C style bitwise operators.

Peter

• Re: bitboards in java? Dave Gomboc 21:50:38 04/07/99
  • Re: bitboards in java? David Eppstein 10:15:37 04/08/99
    • Re: bitboards in java? Dave Gomboc 10:27:53 04/08/99
      • Re: bitboards in java? Peter McKenzie 15:43:30 04/08/99
        • Re: bitboards in java? Peter Kappler 17:10:29 04/08/99
  • Re: bitboards in java? José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba 09:17:38 04/08/99
    • Re: bitboards in java? Dave Gomboc 10:24:10 04/08/99
      • Re: bitboards in java? José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba 13:21:48 04/09/99
      • Re: bitboards in java? Peter Kappler 17:21:25 04/08/99

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