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Subject: Re: Problem with infinite analysis using Deep Junior engines

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 07:02:09 05/09/04

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On May 08, 2004 at 18:06:37, Peter Berger wrote:

>On May 08, 2004 at 17:37:47, Ziad Haddad wrote:
>
>>I saw that there was a bug in the infinite analysis using DJ7 and the DJ8
>>engines, but also with J8. Have someone found this bug also?
>
>Yes, although I don't know of course if you are referring to the same bug of
>course (or mis-feature actually).
>
>Junior usually jumps some in depth using its own definition of depth early -
>typical sequence : 6-9-12-14-16-17-18 etc.
>
>I don't know if Junior uses some usual definition of depth, but at least the
>branch factor follows what can be expected.
>
>But after 4 or 5 hours you'll often get the unexpected jump - following the
>above sequence: 18-19-20-21-24, where the 24 will never get resolved (or at
>least I never had the patience to wait for it).
>
>This probably limits usefulness of Junior sincerely for people interested in
>long-time analysis.
>
>Peter


Yes, hard to say what is being pointed out as a bug. Also early patches were put
out for Junior 8 series. I don't even remember what they were to fix. BK



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