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Subject: Re: dfutility

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:33:02 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 06:27:01, Gabor Szots wrote:

>Can anybody tell me:
>
>What is this option, and what can be expected if this is included or not in the
>compilation process?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Gábor


Your question was ultra-vague.

If you are talking about crafty, and compiling with -DFUTILITY (unix) or
/DFUTILITY (windows) it enables "futility pruning".  This is a way to shrink the
tree somewhat and make the search reach a deeper depth more quickly.  The idea
was explained in the JICCA a while back...




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