Happy New Year!  Yes, it should be breed.elite.0=2  The tutorial had
not been updated to reflect a change we had made in a recent revision
of the system.  You can double-check to see that this parameter is
being used with -p print-params=true

If you're having the _best_ standardized fitness of the generation
increasing occasionally despite elitism, yes, this would imply a bug.
There have been bugs in the elitism before, so I'd be interested if you
can provide a stripped-down version for us to stare out.  Also if you
can get the problem to occur on a unix box it'd be helpful.

Sean

On Dec 31, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Grant Morgan wrote:

> I tried setting elitism as instructed in the tutorial "breed.elite =
> 2", but
> on furthor searching found "breed.elite.0 = 2" and this does cause the
> object state.breeder.elite[0]=2 in my debugger when running tutorial4
> but
> still get raw fitness increasing on some generations (I am using
> 1.4.2_06 VM
> on a windozs machine). Does this mean elitism is not working? Is there
> a way
> to set elitism on?
>
> Cheers,
> Grant