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

Author: Omid David

Date: 15:13:34 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.  How about using the
>idea during quiescence?  Give a bit of extra energy if some red flag is raised.

Speaking of window safety, the following excellent article by Ernst Heinz comes
to mind:

Extended Futility Pruning.  ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 75-83, June 1998.
http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ps/ext_fut.ps.gz

I haven't worked enough on the extended futility pruning; but it's on my "to do"
list.



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