Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 13:39:00 07/30/98
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On July 30, 1998 at 14:46:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >I was just thinking, what if a chess engine was contained in a C++ class? >It would have a function that starts a little loop that waits for work. When it >gets work, it starts searching. >To use it, you make a thread out of this function. >Then, when you want to write an MP program, you make several copies of this >class and several threads running the respective loops. >The threads, being contained in the classes, don't bother each other, except to >request work. >Comments? Suggestions? I think it is a very good idea, but I might scale it down a bit. For instance, make the class be a move generator. Make another class that is a position evaluator. The hardest part will be to write the coordinator so that no work is duplicated and so that resultsare properly synchronized.
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