On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 09:24 -0800, Zach Tellman wrote: > There are few languages other than these that offer reasonable > performance, not worse than 2X slower than C, but they tend > to be > memory hogs. Java is one of them. I cannot imagine every > seeing a top > chess program written in Java, or anything that is really > memory > intensive as good GO program tend to be. Is any of the > 2200+ GO > programs on CGOS written in anything other than C? > > > To be fair, I did write an early version of Ergo in OCaml, and it was > equally fast and arguably quite a bit cleaner. I returned to C++ > because an OCaml library would be useful to probably no one but > myself. So if you want to release something to the public, I agree > that C/C++ is the way to go. Other than that, I don't think that > computer go development has been extensive enough to argue that it's > spanned all possible approaches.
I agree. I was intentionally a bit provocative here as I want people to comment on other languages that might qualify. I had completely forgotten about OCaml and that might very well be a possibility too. - Don > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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