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Subject: Re: QSearch

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 03:30:59 08/18/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 18:50:19, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On August 16, 2000 at 21:02:37, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On August 16, 2000 at 18:52:03, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>My Qsearch usually takes up 70-80 % of the nodes searched.
>>>What are the, say, 10 best ideas/techniques to cut this number down?
>>
>>Very important is to be able to dump your search tree to a text file so you can
>>figure out EXACTLY what is going on.  If you do this (for shallow searches only
>>of course :-), you will surely have many ideas for reducing the qsearch size.
>>
>
>How do I do this the best way?
>
>I have a "SearchTrace"-like function now, that is able to do what you suggest,
>but it's not esp. easy to read such a printout.

I ended up writing a tree view program that read in the search trace file and
displayed the info as a tree.  The search file has all the iterative depths in
it, and you can select which one to display.

Writing the search trace output slows down my program a lot though.  :)

Cheers, Tim.



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