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Subject: Re: To SMP or not to SMP what's the answer?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:32:31 04/10/03

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On April 10, 2003 at 13:43:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 10, 2003 at 13:25:21, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>Personally i have seen a great difference in the long run between SMP capable
>>chess engines and single processor engines, in the words of someone who have
>>dealt with both, what would you say are the pro's and con's??
>>
>>Jonas
>
>the pro of SMP is that all future processors that will get out within a few
>years are already SMP.



It's simply wrong, or you have deliberately chosen to ignore all consumer
electronic devices and most PCs.

I don't even know if the vast majority of processor produced in the world are 16
bits or 32 bits ones. Maybe the majority is 8 bits processors.



    Christophe





>So whatever you buy, software that is SMP will run faster at it.
>
>Period.



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