Re: [computer-go] SlugGo approach: GNU vs.Goliath

[Marco Scheurer <marco@xxxxxxxx>]

> > It is relevant. It's 2 times slower at least.
> Depends on the platform, IMHO. for platforms with separate
> floating point boxes ('units') such as the alpha (maybe newer pentiums 
> ?)
Apple's G4 and G5 have a really nice vector unit.

> the float ops *could* be done in parallel.
Yes, but the same thing would be true for ints.

> It's just an engineering decision, I guess.
I'm all for floats. Why are high end GPU (for instance from nvidia) and 
image file formats (for instance OpenEXR) starting to use floats?

marco

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