Re: [gnugo-devel] influence speed exactness tradeoff

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> I'd like to post the patch below for discussion. It reduces the depth
> values by 1 during the influence computations. This saves 5% of reading
> nodes in strategy3.tst, and also appr. 5% of time for the full
> regression run (this is not exact).
> 
> The breakage is 3 PASSes and 3 FAILs. trevorb:620 is the only bad fail.
> The problem with nicklas4:1201 is hardly related and it's mostly luck it
> passed before. G12 in trevorc:890 is absolutely playable.
> 
> I am not sure whether this is a good tradeoff. Opinions?

It sounds like a good tradeoff to me. Speedups like this can
help us with other problems, such as the slowness of the
experimental connection and semeai modules and the owl code with 
increased node limit.

Dan