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Subject: Use of objects and associated performance hit?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 15:53:04 12/30/99

Although I love C and I usually don't approve of object-oriented programming, I
think there are compelling reasons to use objects in a chess program.

Specifically, I want to have a chess board class, which contains the data and
functions necessary to manipulate a chess board. I also want to have an engine
class, which extends the chess board class, and adds the functions necessary to
search the board.

I have two questions:
1. When I access the chess board class from the engine class, will there be a
performance hit?
2. If I have multiple instances of the engine class, can each one run on a
different processor without a performance hit?

Thanks,
Tom

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