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Subject: Re: Fail-low pruning

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:06:25 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 18:27:05, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On January 17, 2006 at 17:47:56, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>
>>"Fail-low pruning" was a new name to me, but it is not a bad name.
>>The technique was not invented by me, although I like to think that
>>I played some role in popularising it.
>
>Tord - can you provide some generalized pseudo-code showing what it is?
>
>I use a basic PVS searcher I stole out of a very old Tony Marsland article
>but would be willing to try a switch if you think fail-low pruning is better
>than PVS.

It is still a pvs search.

It just uses a special technique to avoid spending too much time in crappy
branches.



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