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Subject: Re: The Moral of the Story is

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 05:07:18 05/05/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 18:14:20, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>Ok! Give me these five programs that are better then the above mentioned.
>Of course the above programs can't use 2-4 or 8 cpus, it is just a gimmick from
>the programmers. I have seen some tests from these programs that "fooled" me to
>believe that they could use multi-processors. Ok, Crafty, Ferret and a few
>others are better with multi-cpus but Fritz, Junior and Shredder are still the
>same as with one cpu.

Noone claimed that they can't use muliple processors effectively. However, it's
not unlikely that other programs are more effective in exploiting that feature.
You might even hesitate to speculate that many years of experience with SMP
could be beneficial in that regard. Could it be that strength differences
between two SMP capable programs on a single cpu system are equalized or even
reversed by adding processors? I don't know, do you?

Mogens.



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