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Subject: Re: THANK YOU ALL for your suggestions!

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 10:27:38 02/16/06

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On February 15, 2006 at 15:19:34, David B Weller wrote:

>It seems there are a couple of areas which are acting together to make my engine
>s--l--o--w.
>
>1. Move ordering [dont we all need better MO]
>2. Fairly conservative forward pruning [R=2 and safe delta margins in futility
>etc]
>3. The extensions are unimpeded and can get a little crazy **
>4. I use a true 3 rep detection [no 2 rep stuff] **
>5. searching ALL checks in quies() **
>
>It may be, that the last 3 are working together against me [a conspiracy? 8-o]
>
>Thanks for your patience. I'll try to be more calm from now on ... ;-|
>
>-David

My advice is to post whenever you want, calm or not. Look at how many responses
you got. Lots of people enjoy reading and responding to such posts.

Andrew



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