itaibn0 comments on Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 08 June 2013 08:19:11AM 0 points [-]

The timing clause in the initial let is superfluous. Time doesn't enter into the matching, which is really all that the template needs; if you need timings to deal with non-CliqueBot players differently, you can get them in the "do something else" section.

Comment author: itaibn0 08 June 2013 11:11:43PM 0 points [-]

The idea behind the timing clause is so that the program will know precisely when it started running, rather than when the pattern-matching was completed. Now, I did this test:

> (define func (eval code0))
> (time (func code0))
cpu time: 0 real time: 1 gc time: 0
'C

which reveals that the difference isn't significant. However, now that the code is out in the open, I'm not changing it.

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