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Subject: Re: Singular Extension Crafties

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 14:42:44 09/08/01

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On September 08, 2001 at 09:42:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 08, 2001 at 06:40:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 2001 at 06:35:24, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The ones with BM in the name are modelled after Bruce Moreland ideas. From my
>>>testing, these versions do better than any of the others (including crafty
>>>without extensions).
>>
>>What tests did you run?
>>
>>What did you change?
>>
>>How did you get SMP to work?
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>He might not have noticed that "searchmp" has to be modified to make this
>work reliably.  The last time I fiddled with this stuff, all the changes
>were in search.c...  this means that if the program splits the tree into
>parallel pieces at a ply that should be "singular" then it will behave
>differently than it should...
>
>Dann:
>
>If you are convinced that this is really working reasonably on a single-cpu
>machine, let me know and let me know where the source is located.  I will see
>if I can fix it up so that it will work correctly in a parallel machine as
>well...

I would _LOVE_ to see an SMP Crafty with SE.  I e-mailed you about it over a
week ago, and didn't get a response.  :(


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