Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 06:09:36 01/20/06
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On January 19, 2006 at 16:50:10, Tord Romstad wrote: >On January 19, 2006 at 08:18:35, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>Dann and Jay are I guess talking about the mp implementation of just sharing the >>hash table. > >Something like ABDADA? It seems that most people who have tried it >are rather disappointed by the results, even on two processors. > >>It's a very cheap way to get some performance benefit, and I am >>thinking about it as a lazy way out for the time being. > >To me, YBW looks like a good compromise between simplicity >and efficiency. At least in a simple and minimalistic search like >mine, it should be fairly straightforward to implement. I can >imagine that it would be a lot more complicated in Rybka, though. >:-) > >Tord I am not sure, this needs to be investigated. YBW already needs the full threading capability, ie. no globals (locks are I am pretty sure out of the question), etc. To tell the truth I haven't really thought about it in the context of a chess program - of course all of my UI stuff is multi-threaded but something tells me that's a lot easier :) Vas
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