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Subject: Re: About qsearch...

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 02:47:55 12/30/01

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On December 28, 2001 at 12:30:32, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>Rafael's idea of an incomplete flag is interesting. I have a similar design for
>a flag for other purposes (three repetition flag, so I do not store this
>position in the hash table). If the score is influenced by a 3 rep in the tree
>this position is not stored in the hashtable. It does not solve all the problems
>but I think that it solve some. I never heard of this, but I am sure somebody
>tried something similar. The general dea of a flag that returns information
>about tricky things done in the tree deserves to be explore.
>Rafael's case is interesting because it will return: "the score of the qsearch
>is x.xx, but, hey! this value depends on a branch I cut off!"
>If you think it is not practical, it will be of extreme help to debug your
>implementation. How many times this this flag will be set on at the root of
>your qsearch? 1:1000000000? then you can remove the flag altogether in the
>release version and keep on the debug version of your program.
>The general idea is interesting, not only for qsearch cases. Since I have
>the design already, maybe I will try it.
>
>Regards,
>Miguel

Let me know if you tried it out. I would be interested in the results.

regards
Rafael B. Andrist



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