Linked List Vs Array

[BrettVsop]

Is it faster to use linked lists to store move lists as opposed to arrays?

[Onno Garms]

May depend on what you do with your move lists, but moste likely arrays are faster.

[Richard Allbert]

Hi,

A bit late for a reply... but just for info, when I first started trying to make a chess program, I used linked lists (as per my C++ reference book). The prgram was very slow.

Then, I read some of the open sources out there, and realised the fixed array method was always used, implemented it and saw a 7x speed up in the program.

Richard