Author: Nicolas GUIBERT
Date: 07:06:55 12/20/02
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>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 Or is it lazy evaluation that is a kind of futility pruning ? Actually, thinking more of it, the reason I posted this question is that I am pretty sure to have already read futility pruning somewhere in the sense of lazy evaluation. I can't remember where. Now I also see better why both belong to the same family... Thx for your answer.
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