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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