[freeciv-ai] Re: New settler code

[Jason Dorje Short <vze49r5w@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Mike Kaufman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> >
> > > Now I finally got to citymap and I don't like the concept.First of all,
> > > it means that AI players work in coordination: they do not try to make
> > > cities on others' spots.Secondly, I don't like mixing server and AI and
> > > here you have server creating a city and putting it on AIs map.I feel
> > > that citymap should be maintained on per-player basis by players
> > > themselves.This will lead to more CPU usage, but I think this is the
> > Amen. This is exactly what I'm talking about Per. Please do not continue
> > down the path of more tightly integrating AI into the server.
>
> Apparently you don't appreciate the genius of this code ;)
>
> Duplicating the map for each player will not consume more CPU, but more
> memory. The current implementation uses 61kb. Multiply by 32 players, and
> you spend 3mb.
But each player just needs one bit of information for each tile, right? 
 So 97% of this 3mb is empty, and could be eliminated if you used a 
bitfield.
Moreover, for systems where std_bool uses a char values as boolean, the 
3mb is reduced to 750k anyway.
jason