RE: [gnugo-devel] Owl and connections

[Portela Fernand]

Arend wrote:

> It sounds for too expensive to test all relevant connections at each move.
> However maybe one could misuse compute_connection_distances() in the
> following way:
> At each move, we compute the distances for a few of the core worms of the
> dragon (or maybe all of them, but that might already be too expensive). We
> remember the distances. Whenever a distance between two worms jumps up,
> we suspect there could now be a cut, and test for it.

I infer from the preceding that you don't think that the idea I presented in
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnugo-devel/2002-October/003245.html is any
good.
Can you please confirm ?

> Opinions? Ideas? It would certainly require a lot of work to make that
work
> well.

Not much, but it looks tough to make it inexpensive.

/nando