Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!nsc!taux01!shahaf From: shahaf@taux01.UUCP (Shahaf Moshe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: mine embarrassingly simple problem Message-ID: <503@taux01.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 12:38:15 GMT References: <500@taux01.UUCP> <764@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: shahaf%taux01@nsc.COM Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Home of the 32532 Lines: 8 Summary: Followup-To: In article <764@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > >(4) Could you tell this newsgroup more about your program? It would be > very interesting to hear of something that ancestral cuts were > needed for. (They _aren't_ needed for interpreting Prolog!) The program does Network synthesis from boolean equations for VLSI design. The ancestral cut was used to stop the search of local transformations when the rate of new maping is too low. shahaf%taux01@nsc.COM