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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 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.

Err, you mean change the name?