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Subject: Re: Q&A with Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:00:17 10/17/02

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On October 18, 2002 at 00:05:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 17, 2002 at 22:25:38, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On October 17, 2002 at 13:35:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>There was even produced a crafty version by me, and of course i am willing
>>>to give the source code of that to any person who wants to see it, so that
>>>he can verify the changes.
>>>
>>>However no one was interested in running it.
>>
>>Crafty version by you with what changes?  I would be happy to see the source and
>>also do some tests if you want.
>
>
>Beware of quicksand...
>
>He doesn't know beans about Crafty.  It took me two weeks to finally convince
>him that
>he was printing nodes wrong in a modified crafty.. yet he used those wrong node
>counts
>to prove that crafty was searching _smaller_ trees with two processors than it
>did with one,
>in most cases.  Which is nonsense...  I wouldn't trust any of his modifications
>to my code...


That is why I asked for source and not for just a binary, so I can check
(somewhat) for myself. :)



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