Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Why doesn't everyone .. ( Program for Dual Processing) ???

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:42:38 04/03/02

Go up one level in this thread


On April 03, 2002 at 14:26:47, Nolan Denson wrote:

>Just wondering .. when writing a chess program why doesn't everyone program them
>to work in dual processing.  Is it that much more difficult ... Also for some of
>the ones that are single engine now ... can you just simply take some common
>code from a program such as crafty and If so .. what parts of crafty does the
>dual  processing ( lock.h etc etc)?  It seems that many see writing there
>programs for dual processing is a lot of work.

I will put it to you very simple, it is all about money based on supply and
demand principle of business. Right now 95% of the Chess enthusiast still own
a single processor computer. I will leave it up to you to figure out the rest.

Pichard.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.