Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:00:19 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 06:35:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On April 10, 2003 at 23:32:31, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>those are at products you cannot run software at.
>
>the GPR cpu's which your average tiger user will buy within say 1 year, it will
>be having for 80% of all cpu's sold build in SMT/HT or whatever the name by then
>is for the different manufacturers. AMD perhaps will take longer than they say
>they need.
If it happens that SMP becomes the mainstream I will add SMP capability to
Tiger. That's all.
I don't see it being the mainstream now, so I don't care much about it as there
are so many other important things to do to satisfy both the customers and my
intellectual curiosity.
Christophe
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