On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Ian Shaw<[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to see a more space-efficient report of rollout results. > Currently, when you see web pages with gnubg rollout results included > (typically gamnonu or bgonline), an awful lot of space is taken up with > repeated rollout settings. This entails a lot of scrolling and makes it > difficult to read the actual results. > > I suggest only printing a parameter when it differs from the next trial > DOWN the list, or is the last one on the list. >
Variants of this has been suggested before. I'll put it on my ever-growing todo list. > In fact, I wouldn't be sad to see the Mersenne Twister reference > disappear. I've never seen anyone post a rollout using anything else. In > the early days of gnubg, having lots of RNG's was a good idea in the > interest of transparency. Nowadays, no serious user (one likely to read > a rollout) doubts that gnubg is honest, so there is not really a need to > provide the choice. > Slightly more controversal, but I tend to agree. Christian. _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
