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Subject: Re: The ecm test suite (bruce, bob?)

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 21:08:19 08/15/01

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On August 15, 2001 at 21:26:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 15, 2001 at 06:52:18, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2001 at 05:03:20, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone tried to clean up the ecm test suite?
>>>//Peter
>>
>>
>>There was a big effort here (or was it rgcc?) a few years ago.  I don't know if
>>anybody went through the effort of verifying all the fixes and publishing a
>>"clean" version.  I remember that many of the fixes/alternatives were very deep
>>variations and took a lot of CPU time to verify.
>>
>>Bruce Moreland has mentioned that he likes ECM -- he might have been part of
>>this effort.  Probably Bob was in on the action, too.  I can't recall the other
>>participants.
>>
>>It would be neat to try cleaning it up again.  Machines are much faster now.  :)
>>
>>-Peter
>
>
>Several of us worked on this. Bruce.  Myself.  Amir.  I don't recall the others.
>
>The problem I have with the suite as distributed is that there are many bugs in
>it.  Bugs that make right answers look wrong and wrong answers look right.  This
>latter problem can make a better result look worse, which makes interpretation
>quite difficult.
>
>I'm certainly willing to go at it again.  Although if we are going to do this,
>I would suggest we take it 50 or 100 positions at a time, and run them and then
>cull the bad ones.  If we end up with 500 good ones, we would still have a good
>test.

What is the test? in the Dann Corbit's ftp site I find several that starts with
ECM.

Regards,
Miguel




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