Re: Re[2]: [gnugo-devel] reading patch

[Arend Bayer]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Gunnar Farneback wrote:

> Paul wrote:
> > wasted by then. it may be a good idea to look for repetetive work in
> > reading module. it is possible that several functions constantly find
> > the same (or partially overlapping) sets of moves.
>
> Yes, there are several such cases. They aren't all that expensive due
> to the caching, but there are some gains to be made. This had better
> wait until the reading code has been considerably simplified
> (according to the long term plans that mostly Arend has been working
> on) though.

I think the problem that the same move gets tried multiple times will
go away automatically. Once every function use ADD_CANDIDATE_MOVE, this
is automatically checked for.

There might still be some duplicating work generating these moves,
though.

Arend