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Subject: Re: Thoughts about board representations...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:21:20 02/12/00

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On February 12, 2000 at 13:17:48, KarinsDad wrote:

>I think the issue may be one of degree. If a program got modified from
>non-bitmap to bitmap (which would probably be a lot of work since so many
>elements of a chess program are dependent on each other), it may increase in
>speed by 10% to 20% (maybe). And, this may correspond to a 7 to 18 ELO

I doubt that bitmap programs are inherently faster than everything else.

I know how to write a bitmap program, and they use a lot of "extra" memory and
do a lot of "extra" work. It just doesn't make sense to me that they would be
inherently faster.

-Tom

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