From 74c5812a59c63f6cf1d9ffe9171dda8f28fc1eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Forest Belton <65484+forestbelton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:53:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about synthesis

---
 gbso/optimize.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gbso/optimize.py b/gbso/optimize.py
index 769f33f..309137b 100644
--- a/gbso/optimize.py
+++ b/gbso/optimize.py
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ from gbso.program.program import Program
 EPSILON = 0.00001
 
 DEFAULT_ANNEALING_CONSTANT = 0.5
-DEFAULT_SYNTHESIS_ITERS = 0
 DEFAULT_OPTIMIZE_ITERS = 5_000_000
+
+# By default, we set synthesis iters = 0 and num candidates = 1 to skip synthesis
+DEFAULT_SYNTHESIS_ITERS = 0
 DEFAULT_NUM_CANDIDATES = 1
 
 DEFAULT_PROB_OPCODE = 0.25