Author: David Blackman
Date: 01:35:33 01/25/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 12:20:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 24, 2000 at 09:57:58, Amir Ban wrote: >>"I'll bet that I have several evaluation terms that are not practical for them >>to compute." >> >>Amir > > >Let me repeat also: "There is _nothing_ you can do in software that they can't >do in hardware in _far_ less time. _absolutely nothing_." That is the benefit >of doing what they did in hardware. Never a question of "can I afford this or >will it slow me down too much?" Only a question of "is this worth the time it >will take to design it?" I wonder if there is some stuff that you want to eval in about 1% of positions. You just have a quick if statement mostly, but in 1% of positions it triggers and you do 500 lines of code. In a software program, this costs you very little except RAM, which is cheap. In hardware, it costs you for chip area and partly for power, even for those 99% of positions that don't use it. If i was doing hardware, i'd avoid most of these. In software, i'd put them in if i had the time and the knowledge. I can't think of any good examples right now, but i'm sure the slow/smart brigade use plenty of them.
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