Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:30:50 11/08/02
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On November 08, 2002 at 04:28:45, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Bob wrote: > >>For a beginner, the less you share, the fewer potential problems you have. > >That's also a reason why I usually tell people to use local most lists and stuff >at the beginning, and optimize later. It just makes life much easier for the >sake of a few NPS, which is not important as long as your branching factor is >15. :) > >Sargon Right. But the advantages of threads become apparent later. IE the EGTB probe code Eugene wrote is multi-threaded. With threads, you get one copy of the cache buffers and indices, and save a lot of memory. If you use heavyweight processes, you take a beating on that count. It is a balance between debugging and performance. At first, debugging is more important. once you have a lot of experience, performance becomes the name of the game... and threads win there...
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