RE: [computer-go] Oh no...possible language superiority storm ahead...

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Diepeveen
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> ahead...
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> I have led several java projects. The comparisions in speed were done 2
> weeks ago. Good programmers never say JAVA is fast. They know
> much better.
>
> Note that many chess engines are coded in assembly. I remember some go
> programs life & death searches are too.

Really? I'm a bit out of touch... Go development in assembler still happened
when I participated in tournaments. But that was more than 12 years ago. I
didn't know it was still done.

I would never say Java is faster than C. It's slower. But most development
goes much faster in Java than in C or C++ though. I have done a lot in both.
And for me, and especially for Go, development speed translates to
performance gain. Maybe it's different for chess, where you need to
experiment less because it's already known *what* you need to program. If
you know exactly *what* needs to be done, obviously assembler is fastest
still.

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