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Subject: Re: assembler vs. C

Author: leonid

Date: 04:15:37 11/10/99

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>You can do something faster in assembly, but it takes such a long time to
>develop it that in the end you lose your advantage.
>
>Because chess programming is about being creative, and assembly lengthens the
>time between the idea and the implementation. That's the key.
>
>
>    Christophe

In reality, it is not writing the code that is the most time consuming in
programming (at least in mine) but verification of each version of logic.
Verification for speed. Writing the code take hardly 5 or 10% from the total
time for creating the game. This is why language must have so little impact on
the time of writing the chess game.

If the last change in my logic took some 5 hours for writing it, after 4 days of
verification of positions I still don't know how much advantage I can obtain
from the last change. I imagine that the same is true for everybody. This is why
I would like to hear from you, or somebody else, how much really the time goes
in writing the game compared with everything else.

Leonid.



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