Re: [pure-lang-users] timex

[Libor S. <li...@gm...>]

Albert,

Thanks for the fix, yes, it works just fine now.
Also, thank you for the references, I will look them up.

Cheers,
Libor

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:29 +0100, Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> wrote:

> Libor Spacek wrote:
>>> timex (\_ -> tailqueens 4);
>> Segmentation fault
>
> This should be fixed now (r465). Libor, can you please check if your
> tailqueens now behaves as expected?
>
> Ok, I think that all the showstoppers are fixed now. I still have some
> minor things on my TODO list for the 0.5 release, the most annoying
> being a minor memleak related to catch/throw, but for most purposes the
> current trunk seems to be ready for everyday use again. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
>
> P.S.: Googling around a bit more I came across Bernhardsson's algorithm
> which might be similar to your technique, see
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=122319.122322. I couldn't find a
> free version of that paper, but a brief description of the algorithm can
> be found on the German wikipedia page:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damenproblem#Explizite_L.C3.B6sung. Also,
> here is an extensive bibliography on the problem which might be
> interesting: http://www.liacs.nl/~kosters/nqueens/index.html.
>