From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21863 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2004 19:27:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21827 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2004 19:27:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) (216.148.227.85) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Sep 2004 19:27:46 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004091119274501400mdtjbe>; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:27:45 +0000 Message-ID: <41435191.7050609@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:54:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lincoln Peters CC: Xconq list Subject: Re: Possible bug in side_can_research References: <1094789127.4338.103479.camel@localhost> <414266B6.3030106@phy.cmich.edu> <1094879273.28085.18040.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1094879273.28085.18040.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01154.txt.bz2 Lincoln Peters wrote: >>Actually, there is a function to update the research vector and it gets >>called whenever a topic is actually researched in the kernel run code. > > I'm a bit unclear on this. Do you mean that it selects a new advance to > research at the beginning of every turn? I'd say that such behavior is > rather inefficient. It doesn't have anything to do with selecting new advances to be researched. It just updates the list of which advances can be researched, so that that list can be used elsewhere ('side_can_research', for example). Eric