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Subject: Re: Fail-low pruning

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 08:34:42 01/18/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 19:06:25, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

I need to look into that - anyone have a URL that explains the technique
with pseudo-code? Particularly helpful would be a PVS implementation.



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