Evolution of a Go program

About the development of Moyo Go Studio, software to (help) play the Oriental game of Go. Go is a two-player zero-sum game of perfect information. It is considered much harder than Chess. Currently, in spite of enormous effort expended, no computer program plays it above the level of a beginner.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Quest for Speed

This is how my CPU utilization graph looks when doing a time-consuming database query. CPU usage is 30% on a 4-CPU machine, meaning that there is some multithreading occuring.