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Subject: Re: SMP variability

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 23:31:19 09/04/02

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On September 05, 2002 at 00:47:17, martin fierz wrote:

>thanks, this is really interesting. i never realized that SMP searches could be
>so variable in some positions and very stable in others.
>actually, vincent might like this, because it's >2 speedup :-)
>
>aloha
>  martin

I have seen on my duals, more than once, an SMP program solve a problem in 3
minutes.

Then 2 hours later I try the same position and it solves it in 5 minutes.

SMP is *way* to random in its branching to be what normal people call "stable".



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