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RE: The Size/Speed Paradox



> 
> I noticed that the program that uses the chars representation 
> runs much
> faster than the int/short based program. For 100 given initial boards,
> it finished them in 11 minutes and 12 seconds. The wider program took
> more than 19 minutes when it was terminated in the middle of board No.
> 62, which is a complex board that takes 42,940 checked states to
> solution.

I haven't looked at your source,
 but the program should need very much
 memory, less memory used->less swapping,
 less memory used->higher hit-rate...

Regards
Maxim


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