Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 18:57:51 10/05/03
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On October 05, 2003 at 16:43:21, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On October 05, 2003 at 15:41:33, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On October 05, 2003 at 13:46:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>There are windows functions to attach a certain process to a certain cpu. >> >>Yes, I know, it's very easy for a single-threaded process. >> >>>Really nothing new. Was there in NT already years ago. >> >>Can you set a process to have affinity for multiple CPUs? > >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/setthreadaffinitymask.asp Ok, so it has to be hardcoded in. A little bit of annoyance, but not a big deal. So why doesn't anyone ever do it? That is, all test results I've ever seen for Hyperthreading that have detailed processor usage reports, for any program (chess or not), have not used this ability.
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