On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Kinsey <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Note that all 32 bits are used if REDUCTION_CODE is defined. I'm not sure
> what
> the "reduction code" does exactly (something about reducing the number of
> rolls
> used in evaluations for a quicker less accurate calculation?), is it a
> failed
> experiment or is it actually used in general?
>


It was something Nis Jorgensen came up with. I don't remember exactly how it
worked, but it was cool enough!
However it had to be #defined away to suite the pruning neural networks.

No wait.... maybe I remember incorrectly. Maybe it was David Montgomery who
added the reduction code and Nis who made a twist by letting some branches
in the go n-ply and some other go (n-1) ply. I think it actually worked, at
least when n=2.

I'm all for removing this code if it was found to have little use.
>

Well, if someone wants  to take up this algorithm it would be interesting,
however if someone wants that they can find the code in the cvs archives
even if it's removed.

-Øystein
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