On 6/15/07, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think D keeps improving. The gcc version is slower anyway, so I haven't bothered with it but my understanding is that they have made a lot of optimizations since we last discussed the performance of D on this group. Of course I haven't tested it out in a while. I would use D exclusively for performance programming if it could get pretty close to C in speed. In principle the author of D claims it's has more potential than C does for optimizations. Are you using D now?
Yes, I'm using D now. On a 1.7 GHz machine, I get 73 kpps, which I think is reasonable for my non-optimized code. The new bot, written in D, would have debuted at the last KGS tournament if I hadn't hit that GC issue. 3 weeks later, I understand the problem and have enough of a bandaid that my development machine doesn't crash in less than a second of thinking. dmd does not support 64 bit or macs. I develop on a 64 bit machine, and another developer uses a mac, so use of gdc would be ideal. For the next tournament tournament, I'll compile and run my bot with dmd, but it'll run on inferior hardware.
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