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Subject: Re: Why is SMP not standard in chessprograms?

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 07:40:05 09/25/01

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The money is in the lowest common denominator. And you can't get lower than one
processor. You do not wave a magic wand to introduce SMP in a program. I would
guess that a programmer that feels that his program has lots of improvement
potential left in his program will feel less incentive to go SMP. The technical
callenge might bring him over though. For example: Chess Tiger is a strong
program that quite often plays horrible chess. I would think Christophe could
easily squeeze a hundred to a hundred an fifty points from it by sheer knowledge
and special case improvements.



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