I also don't store any superfluous low order bits and the
distribution has
You do [all three/four of you] waste a lot of bandwidth
repeating yourselves in this pissing contest.
Can you *please* go on with your lives, optimizing
your code (in your favorite language, if you will)
Or go play outside. The weather seems nice, now.
Yeah... I found this thread interesting for a while and appreciated to
see the input from chess programmers. However, a discussion about the
relative merits of C and Java is definitely off-topic and computer
languages have already been discussed at length on this list. I would
guess that for most of us game programming is a hobby or a research
interest, and using our preferred tools is part of the fun. This is not
a place where advocacy is likely to change anybody's mind.