Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 16:23:37 01/08/02
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On January 08, 2002 at 18:03:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 07, 2002 at 20:46:48, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>First of all, it may take more time. It's probably not important though. >>Secondly, I couldn't think of a simple enough way of doing it. > >I didn't do promotions in quiescent search/SEE. I just added it. These >are my test results: > >[...] > >Warning: node count is different! > >Node count is for same depth only. > > Old New Ratio >----------------------------------------------------- >Nodes: 1046622533 1057808269 101.07% >Time: 123966 133292 107.52% >Depth: 11.71 11.66 -0.05 >Solved: 63 62 > >At best, it's not going to make a lot of difference whether you >do it or not. > >This is tricky for me too. If I keep them, I'm going 7% slower >overall. On the other hand, I _know_ I will be seeing some stuff a ply >earlier. > >The question is now how often do I think it will happen where it matters. > >I have no idea. > >-- >GCP Yes, it was stuff like this I was considering. Also, even if you don't do promotions i quiescensce, and don't want to assess promotions directly, you might still want to deal with promotions _during_ the capture sequence that you are SEE'ing, otherwise your SEE results will sometimes be incorrect. The question is (as you imply): Does it matter? /David
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