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Subject: Re: News about intel multi-processor hardware

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 01:12:29 06/24/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 20:18:30, Sean Mintz wrote:

>Its been rumored to use bitboards. If ported correctly, then yes it would run
>faster. Possibly significantly faster.

Why should it run faster?
It's not clear, at least to me, why a smp program should run faster on
16 procs than on 8 procs.
It may double the nps but not necessarily find a good move earlier.
Please note that SMP is not a massive parallel system.
SMP is limited.
Kind regards
Bernhard



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