Bremer support

[Karl Magnacca]

I should clarify: it was NONA (which is also claimed to be much faster
than PAUP; it may be used as the regular search engine for TNT but I'm not
sure) that ran so much slower.  The search that failed to find the
shortest trees in TNT was the special search technique for massive data
sets.

> Well, I suppose different data sets will run differently, but in my
> original search for MP trees, an approximately 30-minute search in TNT
> yielded the same set of MP trees as the search in PAUP (500 random
> addition sequences, TBR branch swapping) which took *almost 2 weeks* for a
> data set with 68 taxa and 120 morphological characters.

What kind of computer are you using?  Unless it's a VIC-20, I can't
imagine it possibly taking that long for PAUP to run unless something
isn't working right.  The data set I was working with was 97 taxa, ~600
informative DNA and 15 morphological characters, and it only took 10
minutes for 100 replicates on a 266 Mhz computer.  On a new one it takes
less than 2 minutes.

Karl