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Subject: Re: Programmers: ETC

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 21:51:54 02/13/03

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>All that is critical is that you store the same depth you probe with. If you
>do some extensions before storing, you had better do those same extensions
>before probing.  IE if you don't, you are going to introduce some huge artifacts
>that will break things.

It seems that is not all what is critical because precisely you may don't know
if the same extensions will happen in both ocassions. Probing and storing with
the _new_ depth remaining solves that at once, but some others have said is a
little bit slower for them because they want to probe the hashtable first to
hopefully avoid the looking-for-extensions fase. Anyway many things have their
good and bad sides.

>Either you will be cutting off when you should not, or not cutting off when
>you should.  The former will cause the search to become very unstable.  The
>latter will make it slow.



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