Simon, On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 01:09 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > Sadly I've played sgt-puzzles too much so that my favourite puzzles > doesn't feel difficult enough at lower levels/sizes, so I've used > custom settings on those to scale them up. Sadly I've noticed that it > seems to freeze more often on startup the bigger puzzle you've make; For > example `galaxies 25x15du` freezes ⅔ or starts for me, and for `galaxies > 25x15du` it freezes ⅘ times for me. > > Usually though `loopy 40x20t2` works; `bridges 65x25m2` works all the > time, but `bridges 35x25m4` seldom works (also notice you can't set hard > there from cmd line, but that's an other bug).
It does seem like the time taken to generate puzzles for some of the given settings is at least very variable. Is it possible that certain seed values could result in infinite loops? I can't think why that would happen. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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