[gecode-users] Counting clones

[Marco Correia]

Hi,

I suspect the answer to the following question should be somewhere in 
the MPG document, but I was unable to find it - apologies if this is the 
case.

I am interested on obtaining the number of clones for a specific example 
when subject to different value for the c_d parameter in the context of 
a DFS search. I believe gecode used to report this value in the 
statistics, but now it seems there is a specific class CloneStatistics 
which should be updated as search proceeds. I fail to see how to pass an 
object of type CloneStatistics to the DFS search object. Also the 
Space::clone() member function (which seems to be the only place where 
this object can be updated) is not virtual, and therefore cannot be 
intercepted in my subclass of Space (is this correct?). So I tried 
another approach, which was simply to count the number of times that my 
copy() function gets called, which I thought should tell me the number 
of clones. Now I think I'm wrong since this number always reports the 
same number of clones for different values of c_d.

Obviously I'm making some mistake. Any hints?

Thanks!