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Subject: Re: Recapture Extension

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 07:31:04 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 10:23:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.
>

I see.

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

Sure. But I was just curious to hear about peoples experiences.

/David



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