Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:31:45 11/10/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 07:15:37, leonid wrote:
>
>>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.
between one and two hours a day.
Anyway that's not the problem.
Here is how I look at it: 100% of the time I spend in my sources is spend
reading C, not assembly, and for me that makes a big difference.
When I'm not in my sources, I'm not working on Tiger. When my program is running
automatic tests I work on something else.
Christophe
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