Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:21:45 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 13:29:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. The amount of time spent in functions in the CRT is almost zero in any sensibly designed chess program. bruce
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