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Subject: Re: Thoughts about board representations...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:03:24 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 17:50:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>There are pros and cons for all implementations.  The pros for bitmaps don't
>become apparent until they are run on a 'native' architecture (64 bit machines).
>When all is said and done, it is likely that both approaches are going to end
>up pretty much equal, except for the 'data width' problem.  IE an 0x88 program

But you can look at the "data width" problem from the other direction: bitmaps
don't run efficiently on non-64-bit processors.

I like having a program that runs reasonably well on a small processor with
small memory...

-Tom



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