Hacking apgsearch

[Majestas32]

From what I've heard from others, by default apgsearch does periodicity checking every 30 generations since most oscillators in CGOL are divisible by this. However, for other rules, a different value of this would be more efficient. Where in the code is this number to change?

[yujh]

Um I am not sure if this is correct, but apgoucher suggested to change includes/stabilise.h 's line 12 to the period you want some time ago, i think that might work.

[Majestas32]

I've managed to give myself a factor of 3+ increase in MoveroVIII searching speed. Now that that's complete, I'm turning to further improvements, specifically adding bespoke escaping glider detection to handle the c/6d glider of Justfriends and the Turro/Movero rulespace. I don't really have an idea where to start though.

[GUYTU6J]

What is CatGel_Test? Some B2-a rules are apgsearching and uploading hauls to this symmetry, but there is nothing special about the 16×16 asymmetric soups.

[Majestas32]

What is CatGel_Test? Some B2-a rules are apgsearching and uploading hauls to this symmetry, but there is nothing special about the 16×16 asymmetric soups.

My test symmetry to ensure that my customized version of apgsearch optimized for these rules actually worked and produced a distribution of objects that would be expected from these rules.