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Article #281Re: Outlaw ImpRings? - There's a better way
From: Pierre Baillargeon
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 17:08
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 17:08
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Daniel Starr (starr-daniel@yale.edu) wrote: : In article <78903@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7804b@prism.gatech.EDU (Wayne Edward Sheppard) writes: : > [deleted] : > : >If an impring had more points, wouldn't it be easier to kill? : > : Nope. The nifty thing about an impring, after all, is that just like : a classic imp, each instruction prepares the very next one that executes. : As a result, no matter how many points there are, only one -- the one : about to execute -- is vulnerable to bombing/mutation at any given time. : : [deleted] Well, a ring with more points has more vulnerable point and move slower. Also, since most ring a multiprocessed (!?) one way to to throw them off-balance is to increment the B operand (unfortunalty, normal hill preclude '>'). This make the last processes bomb the firsts which eventually die. Finally, more processes means a longer vulnerable time at the beginning. A smaller launch method exist, but it is slower: spl 1 spl 1 spl inc go jmp @0,imp inc add #2667,go dat #0,#0 imp mov 0,2667 -- "Pis Bourassa qui est toujours la. Y'a pas d'remede contre le SIDA" - French B ...........................................................dak@info.polymtl.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!poly-vlsi!shannon!dak From: dak@shannon (Pierre Baillargeon) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: Outlaw ImpRings? - There's a better way Message-ID: <1993Jan2.170839.4347@vlsi.polymtl.ca> Date: 2 Jan 93 17:08:39 GMT References: <1hukq1INNroe@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Lines: 32 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]