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Subject: Re: Single Processor vs Dual Processors

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 15:41:55 04/27/98

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On April 27, 1998 at 16:30:34, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>Dear Bob
>
>Which would be stronger-Crafty playing on a Single Pentium 400 MHZ
>System vs  Crafty playing on a dual processor system consisting of 2
>Pentium 200MMX(or Pentium Pro 200 x2)ie does a single processor system
>running at N megahertz play better chess than a dual processor system
>running on 2 xN/2 processors?
>
>rajen gupta

That is trivially true. To see this, consider that the faster processor
can divide its time to simulate a two-processor algortihm.

Practically, there is always significant waste of processor time when
doing parallel processing for alpha-beta. What is the best efficiency
achieved yet ?

Amir



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