Author: James Swafford
Date: 07:13:53 03/04/06
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On March 04, 2006 at 07:07:34, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 03, 2006 at 22:34:36, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >>Anyone know of a chess engine written perl? I know it's not the fastest language >>but I would say the speed is similar to java which seems to have a couple >>engines. > >I haven't followed the Perl world at all for the last few years, but unless >some really dramatic changes have happened, I think a chess program >written in Perl would be slower than a Java program by at least an order >of magnitude. Isn't Perl still dynamically typed without support for >type declarations? > You're probably right, and from my experience Java is bad enough. I recently wrote a move generator in Java and quit right there- I couldn't even get in the same ballpark as Prophet's move gen, and Prophet is not terribly fast. (Prophet is C++ btw.) Yes, Perl is dynamically typed, and I think the lack of real type safety coupled with being interpreted makes Perl a horrible choice if you want to make something even semi-competitive. Of course, anything goes if you're just out to tinker around. -- James >>If anything it seems like a nice language to test ideas out quickly :) > >There are much better languages for that kind of stuff, you know. ;-) > >Tord
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