Re: [Bug-gnubg] Suggestions for GNUbg

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote
[snip]
> It would be possible (but definitely not easy) to start a Tutor mode
> cube evaluation after gnubg plays (and any synchronous sound) while
> waiting for the player to make a double/roll decision. If they decide
> before the cube analysis is done, then you simply discard the work,

Yes, but it still requires you to start a thread with the analysis and
terminate that thread if the user continues before it's finished. 

Also, we should make sure that the user doesn't do anything in the
interactive thread that interferes with the background analysis, i.e.,
all evaluation subroutines must be made thread-safe and we should
terminate the background analysis if the user does "analyse match" and
possibly also on "hint". 

> Here's a thought. 
> 
> For Unix users, doing an analysis on a niced copy of gnubg is trivial
> (in fact, I've seldom felt the need to nice it at all).

Yes, that is what I do as well.

Jørn

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