[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7350) Map radius change with city size

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:45:59PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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>> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
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>> > Aren't you exagerating just a little bit? This may be O(R^4), but R=2.
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>> R can increase under Remi's patch.  Perhaps R==5 in the worst case.
>> That gives 10,000 checks.  A few milliseconds?  This is a one-time cost.
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> It looks to me that this can be computed at compile time. Why don't we
> do so?

1.  Because that would require another generator.  Not worth it.

2.  Because it can't always be computed at runtime.  For instance if we
have a hex-tiled map the list is different.

jason