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Subject: Re: dfutility

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 22:46:53 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 10:33:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Yes, I was talking about Crafty. Thank you.



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