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Subject: Re: Is Crafty broke?!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 20:44:09 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 19:10:43, Dann Corbit wrote:

>There is no problem with crafty.
>It's a problem with the counters.
>
>The biggest number a long can hold is about 2 billion.
>
>That overflows very easily.
>
>If you let crafty run for more than a few minutes, the NPS figures have no
>meaning.  You used to be able to get negative values, but I think at least that
>has been fixed.

Don't you compile a version using 64-bit ints for the counters?  Maybe Slater
could use that.

Dave



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