Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 13:15:38 04/17/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 18:15:52, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >In a different discussion, Vincent wrote the following: > >>It is not difficult to implement the form of parallellism as used by >>Rudolf. Invented by a frenchman who couldn't spell a word english and >>who wrote an impossible article for JICCA (did anyone proofread it at >>the time as i'm pretty sure they didn't get his parallel idea?). >> >>At the time when i read the article i was pathetically laughing about it >>actually as i also didn't get the idea of the frenchman. But it appears >>everyone who can make a chessprogram work under win2000 can also get >>within an afternoon his program parallel to work. Then some debugging >>and a day later it works cool. > >I'd be very interested in this algorithm, that can be implemented at an >afternoon :-) > >Could you point elaborate on this. > >BTW. In Paderborn, Roland Pfister also told me, that he knows this from Rudolf >Huber, and he even started to explain it to me. Somhow, we (or me) got >distracted, and I cannot remember the essential things. > >What I remember is, that the time consuming work, of making your >search/evaluation routines free from all those global variables is not needed. My program does not use global variables in the search (except few flags like XBOARD_MODE etc.). Everything is passed through pointers. That means that part of the job to make it SMP is already done? I am not planning to do that soon, but it is interesting to keep in mind so I won't be tempted to use globals. Who knows, maybe some day I would do it. Regards, Miguel > >Regards, >Dieter
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