Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:59:58 08/22/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 23:03:40, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >My sincere compliments to zappa and fruit, really terrific. But I am a single >cpu owner, probobly always will. But I have this feeling that the commercial >programs (fritz mainly) in 1 cput configuration would strangle zappa and fruit, >particularily in CC games. Please tell me I am wrong. >Wayne Remember 7-8 years ago when everyone was saying "Bob, you are wasting your time on that parallel search stuff, that is for expensive computers, not for PCs. We are designing for PCs." Flash forward. By the end of 2006, most any new computer will have at least two cores (two processors). And AMD at least will be offering a quad-core processor early in 06. This "SMP stuff" doesn't seem so useless any longer, does it? Anyone that ignores it, is just ignoring free performance that will be on _every_ machine within a couple of years...
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