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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:29:53 09/25/01

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On September 25, 2001 at 10:31:17, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>In these times where more and more "regular" people get dual systems, why is it
>then not standard for chessprograms to run on 1-x amount of processors?

A tiny fraction of the people who own computers have more than one CPU.

It is very difficult to get SMP right unless you are a very good programmer who
has done it before.

A SMP program will be slower on one CPU than a non-SMP program because the
libraries have to be reentrant.



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