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Re: Just *how* hard is a GO playing program?

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From: le... Joel B Levin
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 17:48
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In article <25...@boulder.Colorado.EDU> a...@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
|In article <70...@milton.u.washington.edu> m...@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
|>In article <1990Sep3.0...@cbnewsh.att.com> w...@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:
|>
|>	HRLOI AC,-1(COUNT)	; Halfword Right to Left Immediate, fill Ones
|>	EQVI AC,ADDR		; EQuiValence Immediate
|
|		 or
|
|>	MOVN AC,COUNT		; MOVe Negative
|>	HRL AC,AC		; Halfword Right to Left
|>	HRRI AC,ADDR		; Halfword Right to Right Immediate
|
|Why make things so compilcated. Why not simply
|
|	MOVE AC,[-COUNT,,ADDR]	; Load ac with ....
|Ho hum.

Maybe because COUNT is a variable (an accumulator) holding a computed
value, so it can't be known at assembly time?

Ho ho hum.

	/JBL
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From: le...@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Just *how* hard is a GO playing program?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:48:28 GMT
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