Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:49:46 04/03/02
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On April 03, 2002 at 14:42:38, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>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.
Actually more than 95% of the people who want a chess program do not own a
multiprocessor system, and this percentage is GROWING (not the opposite).
Christophe
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