Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 21:16:22 09/04/02
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>I did point out that the number he printed was always "low". And told him >to run crafty with mt=2 in console mode and occasionally type a ".". For >a good while the nodes searched won't change, even though you _know_ it is >searching. Then, suddenly, the node counter will jump significantly as the >values get backed up and the nodes get collected and added. He is making >his judgement on a value that has not been updated recently. I told him >how to see this in the code, but do you think he is going to let a logical >explanation get in the way of his powers of "deduction"? Not likely. :) Anyone who has ever spent any time with an SMP crafty and Winboard has seen this behaviour. Sometimes the node count doesn't get updated for a long time, then "boom", it goes way up. Dave
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