Re: [Bug-gnubg] bug when stopping ROs at a JSD difference.

[Christian Anthon]

>
> You're right Jim, the different numbers are caused by the fact that the jsd
> and
> end checking is separate from the rollout code. So in this example gnubg
> could
> have done 323 trials and then several threads (lets say 3) all rollout one
> trial, now the jsd is calculated and found to be too high. All we know is
> that
> somewhere between 324-326 trials the move is no longer valid.
>
> One fudge I could add is to say that if a move ends within the number of
> threads
> being used and the jsd trial limit, set the number of trials to the jsd
> limit
> (as it's likely the move actually hit the jsd limit before the min number of
> trials). It just depends if this is worth adding.
>
> Jon
>

There is really no "right" way to use the jsd to stop early when the
number of trials are out of sync for the candidates, and we cannot at
present roll back the rollout trials, so I say leave it as it is.

Christian.