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Don Dailey



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PostPost subject: Re: Go language    Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:12 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
spambanane wrote:
As I always wanted to write a chess program, I took the chance now that Go was finally released:

http://code.google.com/p/gochess/

It is in eary stage, but capable of giving a beginner a hard time. I can't tell much about engine speed, I guess it's rather poor.

I found another go chess project recently:

http://code.google.com/p/gochess/

This guy is using bitboards, I use a 10x12 board representation.

One performance hit I came across is array access. Go is memory safe, so every access to an array element includes an assertion to make sure the array index is not out of bound. This, of course, comes at a cost. As I use arrays a lot (precomputed moves e.g.) this sums up.

So I wonder how the Go people will achive their goal to make Go (almost) as fast as C.

From my first project with Go I can tell that Go is fun to work with and it makes me very productive.

Heiko


I think you should give it a go (no pun intended.) I'm pretty sure you will suffer some penalty in speed, but you may gain a lot with productivity. And if Go really catches on, which seems likely, you can look forward to future versions of Go with much higher performance. I think Go is already slated to be included in the GCC compiler suite if it's not already there - so performance is likely to get some serious attention.
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Go language Russell Reagan Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:40 am
      Re: Go language Ron Murawski Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:18 am
            Re: Go language Don Dailey Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:23 pm
                  Re: Go language Ron Murawski Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:12 pm
                        Re: Go language Don Dailey Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:27 pm
                              Re: Go language Ron Murawski Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:46 pm
                                    Re: Go language Don Dailey Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:16 pm
                                          Re: Go language Russell Reagan Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:39 am
                                                Re: Go language Ron Murawski Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:24 am
                                                      Re: Go language Don Dailey Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:44 am
                                                            Re: Go language Russell Reagan Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:52 pm
                                          Re: Go language Ron Murawski Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:06 am
      Re: Go language H. Schlichting Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:08 pm
            Re: Go language Don Dailey Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:12 pm
                  Re: Go language H. Schlichting Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:25 pm
                        Re: Go language Don Dailey Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:31 pm
            Re: Go language H. Schlichting Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:19 pm
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