Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:17:05 07/30/98
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Memory isn't fast enough to divide up processors by function (e.g., move generation, etc.). It wouldn't make the program any faster. Cheers, Tom On July 30, 1998 at 16:39:00, Danniel Corbit wrote: >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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