Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 11:18:54 05/22/04
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>Who knows. I use threads on SMP. On NUMA. There is no significant reason not >to. And since Eugene's EGTB code is specifically designed for threads as well, >the gain by having a large shared LRU cache of table data is also worthwhile. Actually, I think there is a very good argument for using threads over processes, namely the new chip-multiprocessors due in year or two which will probably have a shared L2 cache. I don't know how smart the OS is in terms of consistently scheduling threads on the same CPU. I know when I run things on my dual opteron at home it consistently bounces processes from CPU to CPU, which seems stupid even on an SMP system (still have to transfer all that data from cache to cache). anthony
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