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Subject: Re: question for programmers: fast or slow searchers,what is better?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:25:16 09/16/98

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On September 16, 1998 at 12:09:31, blass uri wrote:

>I believe a slow searcher can be better because you must have a slow searcher to
>evaluate which lines are more important to analyze.
>
>I think that a slow searcher can be better also in test positions than fast
>searcher because of this reason.
>
>What do you think about it?


You can make a case for both.  And, the final result I believe, will be
*equal* results, eventually.  Because the fast searcher will see more,
the slow searcher will evaluate more to produce the same sort of result.

Nothing convinces me (yet) that both a fast search and a good eval can't
work together to produce good results.  The search is likely to have fewer
bugs, which might be important...



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