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Michael, I'd recently (in the last few months) made significant 
modifications to the ES package, simplifying it and making it more 
flexible.  I may have screwed something up, let me look.

BTW: thanks for the bug reports, they're enormously helpful.

Sean

Michael Hart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just started running into issues with two breed threads and 
> ESSelection when mu+lambda are equal and not even (ie, mu = lambda = 
> 13). Basically the parent index was one higher than it should be and an 
> ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException was being thrown.
> 
> I started digging around the code and I think ESSelection.java may 
> require a little TLC. Firstly, the produce(int, EvolutionState, int) 
> method seems to use a different way of calculating the parent than 
> either the breeder or the other produce method does. Secondly, I think 
> there's an off-by-one error in the way the current position is 
> determined when multiple threads are involved and lambda is not even.
> 
> I've attached a couple of patches that I think do the right thing (the 
> breeder patch is just a clean-up to clarify the code a little).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael