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Re: computer-go: Sharing Go modules - ready for download



On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:59:44PM +0200, Mark Boon wrote:
> Sorry for the delay guys, I finally found some time to fix my web-page. You
> can now download the modules from it.
> 
> 	www.xs4all.nl/~tesuji
> 
> Any ideas or comments are appreciated.
> 
> I have a few more modules in the pipeline like a pattern-matcher,
> board-admin (liberties and stuff) and group-construction. But I have to find
> the time to work on it.
> 
> I find that the speed varies considerably depending on which Java VM is
> used, the fastest being from Symantec. That would not be an issue if someone
> decides to translate it into C++ of course, in which case I hope that will
> be shared as well. At least I would be interested to see how the Java
> performance would actually compare to C++ since I feel I made a few
> compromises that improve readability but cause some overhead in Java.
> 
>     Mark Boon

dear Mark,

I found IBM's JVM to be fastest overall (25% faster than Sun's hotspot);
from 1.5 to 1.9 times slower than optimized C...

regards,

-John