The core life and death evaluator needs a few hundred KB of memory. Remember that it was originally written to run well under DOS, with a total memory budget for code and data of about 450 KB. A full life/death evaluation tables about 10 to 20 milliseconds on modern hardware.
Reasonable royalty income is at least several thousand dollars a year. Otherwise it's not worth the distraction, contracts, NDAs, etc. David > > > I license Many Faces's engine for applications that can generate > reasonable > > royalty income, but this application probably doesn't qualify. > > You haven't specified what order of magnitude would you consider > sufficient. That > said, skimming "Knowledge Representation in The Many Faces of Go" suggests > that it's probably too memory intensive for my purposes. > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
