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Subject: How stable is stable enough for you?

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 00:09:52 07/24/03


After tracing a bug in Sharper for over a week I was starting to loose hope...
A ran 600 games with a debug version, no problem.
Switched to release version, after 579 games the bastard hanged =(.

Would you consider releasing this engine version bad policy?

Have you any known bug in your engine that you simply do not care about because
it occurs very rarely?

I realize that it will not be easier to find the bug later, it's just that I
don't have the stamina to try and reproduce it again with the debug version, it
can take thousands of games =(

As I write Sharper mainly to let it compete against other engines I have no
problem with giving away that one point in a thousand games, but I wouldn't like
to see Sharper excluded from tournaments because it's buggy.

/Regards Albert



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