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Subject: Re: Multi-threading issues

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:44:59 11/08/02

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On November 08, 2002 at 17:05:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>That's a peanut time investment compared to a full SMP algorithm like
>>Crafty, Sjeng, not to mention what DIEP uses.
>>
>>Crafty and DIEP needed years to bugfix,
>
>Don't know where you have been, but the parallel search in Crafty took two weeks
>to write.  It may well _still_ have a bug or two that I haven't seen show up, of
>course.

I'm tempted to say, the time to write it is irrelevant, it's the time to get
it working well that matters. Debugging and testing a parallel search takes
'quite' a bit more time than writing one.

In fact, the above is true for almost everything in programming.

--
GCP



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