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Subject: Re: Neverending story with incomplete tablebases

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:13:23 08/16/03

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On August 16, 2003 at 03:24:47, Johan de Koning wrote:

>>Nondeterminism is something you can live with. Forget about getting
>>the engine working on multiprocessor if you don't.
>
>So far you sound like someone trying to mimic Vincent. :-)

But you sound like someone who avoided my point :)

At some point you must choose between determinism and performance.
I don't want to go to lengths to keep the engine deterministic only
to find out later it can't be maintained AND I've lost time and
speed trying to put off the inevitable.

Hence the Santa Claus reference. You can stubbornly keep believing,
but one day, he'll stop bringing presents. Or maybe it was just me who
was a bad boy.

--
GCP

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