Re: [gnugo-devel] Irregular edges

[Daniel Bump]

> I'm aware of this problem, but am adding the following functionality
> before fixing it:
>  - CPU time used per problem.
>  - other useful statistics per problem.
>  - capturing of -t output for all problems.
>  - storing sgf trace files for owl_* problems.
>  - saving problem solution info to XML, rather than HTML directly,
>    allowing much more flexible reporting/sorting, etc.

Some of this doesn't seem high priority to me.

But for the genmove problems the html view really does need
the results of top_moves. Gunnar seems to have done some
debugging around October 3 and wrote:

> > This is much worse than that. In fact the same move isn't even
> > generated by "gg_genmove black" run twice:
> > 
> >   loadsgf  games/trevor/trevor_25.sgf 31
> >   = black
> >   
> >   gg_genmove black
> >   = G2
> >   
> >   gg_genmove black
> >   = F4
> > 
> > Needless to say, this requires an investigation.
> 
> As I suspected this aspect of the engine is broken by design (my
> design, as it happens). The problem is that the caching scheme in
> examine_position() causes make_worms() and make_dragons() not to be
> rerun the second time do_genmove() is called, but the list of move
> reasons is reset and the ones generated in make_worms() (and possibly
> make_dragons() too) are lost.

I assume this to the NEEDS_UPDATE scheme.

Inge wrote:

> I simple fix would be to cache the generated move reasons in the
> worm[] and dragon[] arrays.  Then they could be quickly reissued when
> examine_position is called again.

and Gunnar seemed to endorse this idea. I think we do
need to do something about this.

Dan