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Subject: Re: assembler vs. C

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:49:49 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.

How much time do you use for fixing bugs?

I did not write chess programs but my small experience with C shows that I use a
lot of time for fixing logic bugs when the program does not do what it is
supposed to do.

It can be something stupid(for example if I write ; that I should not write and
do not pay attention to it) and it can take an hour to discover where is the
problem when you have a project of some hundreds lines.

Uri



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