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Subject: Re: Is Crafty broke?!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:12:24 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 23:44:09, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>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.

I had one a long time ago, but abandoned that since there were a lot of changes
and I wanted to keep in step with the new versions of crafty.



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