On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Kinsey
<address@hidden> 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