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Subject: Re: Crap statement refuted about parallel speedup

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 20:00:20 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 22:37:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Note that the statement that i could do things on 1 processor quicker then
>i can proof incorrect. If you can do the same thing which you do on 2
>processor but now on 1 processor, then that would implicitly mean that
>2 processors are deterministic. Because behaviour at 1 processor is
>deterministic for me.
>
>At 2 it is not. So i cannot do what i do on 2 processors in one process.
>
>How's that?

You can get psuedo-indeterminicy by using pseudo-random number generation.

You may be encountering phenomenon similar to ideas contained in "Rapid Random
Restart" in your search.  I have (privately) conjectured about the feasability
of this for some time already.

Dave



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