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Robocode Rumble: Tips From the Champs

Posted by michael on from the easier-than-battlebots dept.

Jason writes "The Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success? Dana Barrow talks shop with some of the mad scientists behind the winning Javabots and with Mat Nelson, who reveals what he has planned for Robocode 2.0. You can get the free download here."

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  1. Java slow by fortinbras47 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Maybe I just have a weird sense of coding aesthetics, but I always feel dumb when trying to do AI stuff in Java (in the same way I feel dumb trying to do nice beautiful code in c).

    No matter how good you try to code it in Java, a similar c++ version will run SO MUCH faster... And so when you're doing AI (which tends to test the border of what's computationally possible), I walk away with a dirty feeling if I try to do, let's say a SAT solver in Java.