Using functional tools

[Alex Martelli]

RPM1 wrote:
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> Actually I like the Numeric solution.  And since this is a chess program,
> this function will easily be called 100's of millions of times.  So ANY
> savings is worth while.

Do consider moving to Numeric for all your array/handling, rather than
just using it for a few manipulations with transformation to/from lists:
you may be able to get substantial acceleration this way.


Alex