@Dan: 9.5 min on what CPU, RAM ? My rig is 3.5 GHz single thread Ivy Bridge, DDR3 1600, which will be holding me back quite a lot compared to modern kit!
The main problem with VB.Net (well, .Net itself) is only allowing you to disable integer overflow checks.
I remember VB6 let you also disable array bounds checking. That option SHOULD be available in .Net!
--> Test your code in Debug mode ... ok, it works, release mode with no checking --> let it rip!
My VB.Net prog spits out solutions as it finds them, but this hardly impacts performance. There is a single render thread that waits for a solution from a shared queue that [24 in my case] worker threads are feeding.
I would like to keep all the hot stuff in registers, but I don't think C will give me enough control over that, so maybe it's asm time!
The main problem with VB.Net (well, .Net itself) is only allowing you to disable integer overflow checks.
I remember VB6 let you also disable array bounds checking. That option SHOULD be available in .Net!
--> Test your code in Debug mode ... ok, it works, release mode with no checking --> let it rip!
My VB.Net prog spits out solutions as it finds them, but this hardly impacts performance. There is a single render thread that waits for a solution from a shared queue that [24 in my case] worker threads are feeding.
I would like to keep all the hot stuff in registers, but I don't think C will give me enough control over that, so maybe it's asm time!
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