Re: [gnugo-devel] floats

[Arend Bayer]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Trevor Morris wrote:

> I was remembering this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2002-04/msg00160.html
> where we spend a fair bit of effort tracking down platform dependencies,
> that turned out to be float related.
> 
> So, I guess that the approach is to only tackle platform-dependent
> differences when/if they occur.  This approach seems to be working fine.

Well, e.g. thanks to Nando, we recently removed floating point
computations from the readconnect code. But for territory evaluation it
seems not dangerous with respect to platform dependencies, because we
finally add a random number to each move value anyway.

Arend