[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4636) make gotohand's local_vector denser

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> find_the_shortest_path in server/gotohand.c has a static variable 
> local_vector, a 2d array with dimensions MAP_MAX_WIDHT * MAP_MAX_HEIGHT.
> 
> This is inefficient not only because of the wasted memory, but because 
> the inferior cache usage slows things down.
> 
> The correct thing to do - and what is done everywhere else - is to make 
> this value a 1d array indexed by index positions.

While you are at it, please convert local_vector to bit-vector.

G.