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Subject: Re: Speaking of the Thesis by Marcel van Kervinck (hopefully no storms)...

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 13:02:23 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 15:56:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 15:46:53, Tony Werten wrote:
>[snip]
>>It's called lazy eval and is not a good idea. The times it is wrong happen to be
>>the important ones.
>
>There must be some window wide enough to accomodate for it.

Yes, but then you won't get a 71% hitrate. ( or your eval is very simplistic ie
material only eval will give you a 100% hitrate )

>How about using the
>idea during quiescence?  Give a bit of extra energy if some red flag is raised.

You get in the area of futility pruning then wich isn't very good either.
Spending a bit more energy to do a full eval pays of here. FP and lazy eval
together is starting to get really dangerous.

Tony



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