Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:04:56 10/31/03
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On October 31, 2003 at 15:35:30, Russell Reagan wrote:
>On October 31, 2003 at 15:21:15, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>I have also never run Junior on any of my computers (I don't even have a
>>computer
>>where Junior would run), but rumors have repeatedly claimed that it doesn't have
>>a qsearch. It seems really strange to me, too, and I am tempted to believe that
>>you and Uri are right and the rumors wrong.
>
>
>Richard Lang said that Genius had a "swap off routine" instead of qsearch.
In the early versions, yes.
Not anymore. Just have a look at the lines it displays.
Instead, it has a very sophisticated QSearch.
Christophe
> Maybe
>Junior has something similar. If it could be made to work, then you save all of
>those qsearch nodes.
But you don't need to save all those QSearch nodes. You just need to have a more
efficient QSearch.
It is possible to have only 0.5 to 0.3 QSearch node for every nominal search
node. You won't beat that with a SEE.
Christophe
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