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Subject: Re: Side effects of lazy eval?

Author: Carlos del Cacho

Date: 09:10:00 09/27/00

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On September 27, 2000 at 09:26:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 27, 2000 at 07:47:18, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>Supposing no "lazy-errors" at all were made, does anyone know if there are
>>serious side-effects to lazy eval?
>
>None at all.  Except that guaranteeing this is a bit hard.  :)
>
>
>
>>
>>I one experiment that I yet have to repeat, it seems that NPS increases, but
>>Depth (as averaged over 300 wac positions) does not.
>>
>>I would like to know if others have seen alike or other problems with LE.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bas Hamstra.
>
>It has been used forever.  As a classic trade-off between speed and accuracy.

Just a question related with this. Since I implemented lazy eval in my program I
don't store the value returned by search in the hash table when there's a fail
high or a fail low. I just store beta or alpha instead. Is this correct ?

Thanks in advance,
Carlos



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