FOLLOWING INITIAL RULE APPLICATION FOR ISLANDS:

After the initial rule applications for islands, the index looks like this (islands are indicated with a 2):

  RELATION_20: 0 2 
      CLAUSE_28: 0 1 1 
          %RECONCILE_1: 0 2 
              %JESUS_20: 2 
              %CREATURE-SET_6: 2 
              %GOD_15: 2 
      CLAUSE_31: 0 0 2 
          %DEATH_1: 1 1 
              %JESUS_21: 2 
              %CROSS_1: 1 1

There are only three nodes that are not islands. Using the complete example text, 78 percent of the rules were eliminated at this point, and, taking into account the fact that those rules that are part of an island require no further processing, only 9 percent of the original rule set needed further evaluation by the modified recursive descent processor.