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Subject: Re: Phhhbt

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 21:53:37 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 18:23:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I don't think it is "horribly crippled".  Just "crippled".  In ways I
>understand, but don't want to waste the time fixing.  Too much depends on
>saving some time with pondering.  Turning it off would be doable, but a lot
>of testing and modification would be needed to fix all the holes doing that
>creates.  I barely have enough time to work on the program as is, and I would
>much rather work on the Beowulf search than spend time tuning something I don't
>and won't ever use...
>
>If you are rich, money is no object.  In this case, time is money and I am
>nearly broke.  I watch _every_ penny (minute) of time I spend since I have so
>little of it nowadays..

Perhaps you could default pondering to on, and comment out the "ponder off"
command.  If someone wanted to turn it back on for testing, they could, but if
someone wants to use a stock version of your thing to do a "I'm going to prove
that Bob is stupid" test, they'd have to modify your code to do it, which would
make the test more than a bit suspect.

bruce




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