Re: Python & chess
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
>> 2006/8/24, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
>>> The 1st link in his email describes how when a python chess
>>> player was (mechanically) converted to C++, the resulting app
>>> ran 10x faster.
>
>> That's it, compiled languages are fastar than interperted ones.
>>
>
> This is true. However in modern computing most programs are
> sitting idle so scripted languages are not as ill-suited as they
> once were. Furthermore,
[snip]
> a compiled language offers. IE, code the 90-95% of the idle
> intensive stuff in Python, optimize the 5% intensive in C/C++.
>
> So, strictly speaking, Python is not ill-suited if one follows
> the advice of Python's own advocates. :) Write the interface in
> Python and have it call the engine written in C.
You need to re-read the OP:
but it could be grat for chess interfaces, for drawing boards,
and similar things.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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