Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 05:23:59 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 08:11:34, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote: >Just checking : > >"Futility pruning" means "use of lazy evaluation", right ? Yes and no, depending upon how you view it. Futility pruning means, "this is really bad, I'm not going to waste my time to find out how bad." Futility pruning is a search topic. Lazy evaluation is generally an evaluation topic. However, futility pruning could be a kind of lazy evaluation of the search. I see how you can make that connection. Technically speaking, they are different things, but in more general terms, it is ok to say that futility pruning is a kind of lazy evaluation, IMO. Russell
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