On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:13 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: > Some language may make it easy to encapsulate information gleaned > during local searches into a kind of "short term memory" and exploit > that to speed up evaluation of many branches of the search tree. Who > knows? We have a long way to go before playing at the pro level on a > 19x19 board.
I'm a firm believer that computer "I.Q." is directly correlated with processing power. In this case, the ability to win at GO for a computer is going to be a function of the CPU performance and memory capacity. Some languages will facilitate the exploration of ideas exactly as you say. But at some level it will come down to an efficient implementation. One can always take a good idea, and then re-implement it in a boring but very fast execution language such as C or assembly. It would be a shame to have to do this however if you already have a language that can really express the idea superbly. Ocaml of course is quite superior in this regard compared to C and assembly language. - Don
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