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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am using GA Lib for my project. I just found something odd
with GALib:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For a genetic algorithm defined with population of N and
generation of M, the total number of objective function evaluation should be Nx(M+1)
(Considering ga.initialize(), where GaLib generates the first generation). However
I found the number of data points is always less than N(M+1). After I put a
global variable to trace the number of objective function evaluations, I found
GA Lib starts off with evaluating every individual in a population, start to
skip more and more evaluations after a few generations…..</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am perplexed. Can someone here explain why?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks!</span></font></p>
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