So I am porting a variation of the board game Hex from java to javascript, as I am putting it on the web. One of the functions I need to write for the computer AI to get his next move is to fill in the rest of the board (a filled hex is red or blue, an unfilled is white) 300,000 times, randomly, and check the winner of the game, and then make some quick calculations, and returns the position of the best move.
This worked fine in Java, but it seems to be hanging up in JS. I have decreased the number of repetitions to 100,000, and then down to 1000, and i still have to stop the script when I test it in firefox. I was wondering if I could pass the data to an AJAX call, do the computations in PHP, and then return the correct move. I am having 2 problems however: 1) I don't think you can pass an array to AJAX, and I have an array of hex colors for the board that must be passed in. 2) The function making the AJAX call must return the move (and the correct bid, as this is a bidding game), but the function ends before the AJAX call completes. Any suggestions about how to best do this would be appreciated. You can see the code break by going to http://apps.facebook.com/biddinghex Then going to play computer, and entering a bid, hit bid - the script will crash. Thank you, Jay
