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Subject: Re: Instability thing...

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 13:16:04 09/19/04

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On September 19, 2004 at 15:19:37, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On September 19, 2004 at 14:59:08, Pallav Nawani wrote:
>
>>On September 19, 2004 at 04:11:43, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On September 18, 2004 at 19:43:55, Andrew Platt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>then you are always starting a new ply and you aren't losing any information. In
>>>>fact, if you don't do this you have a problem because you have information
>>>>relating to a *previous* move in the PV. Resetting the PV at this ply won't
>>>>cause the information already backed up from the previously tried moves.
>>>
>>>Yes my logic is a bit different, the child PV is not copied until the end.
>>>
>>
>>Interesting. Any particular reason why you don't update the PV immediately?
>>
>>Regds,
>>Pallav
>
>Bumming code. The instructions get run less by not updating it more.

That's what it's all about, isn't it :)

>I see the attraction of the idea but won't implement it.
>
>As they say, chose to opimize after you have all the functionality you
>want. Not before or during.

I think you should keep what you have if it works, it does win back a little
because you can do without some of the termination checks.

-S.
>Stuart



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