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Subject: Re: Recapture Extension

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:23:19 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 10:15:53, David Rasmussen wrote:

>Some time ago we talked about the recapture extension. Bob's experiments with
>Crafty seemed to show that recapture extension was a bad idea at least for his
>program.
>
>How many people have the recapture extension because they positively believe
>that it is better for their program, and how many has removed it from their
>program because the positively believe that it is bad for their program?
>
>I am sure a lot of people have it or don't have it, but for no specific reason,
>that is, they have not tested the effect of this extension thoroughly.

For me it is positively better, although I don't have the data handy.

I think Robert re-enabled in the newest Crafty versions too.

Of course, you should really test this yourself in your own program.

--
GCP



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