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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.2.1 and 86 ply: a record or misprint !?!?

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 16:27:53 10/31/05

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On October 31, 2005 at 12:40:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

[--snip--]

>This logic is flawed.  This says that the _only_ person that can critique a
>program is a person that has written a program that is as good or better.  In
>the world of hot-rodding, I can tell someone if they have too much carburetor on
>their V-8 even if I can't beat 'em...  And I can be 100% correct when I tell
>them that...
>
>I'd say conventional wisdom goes with Uri here.  One can over-extend.  And it
>might well be that Fruit would be even stronger if the extensions were tuned a
>bit.
>
>forward-pruning compensates for over-extending somewhat.  But extending too much
>is just as bad as extending too little...

Bob,

Fess up, when's your next Nascar race!? I'm guessing you'll be driving
some 512-CPU Numa-powered dragster!! ;-)

--tom



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