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Subject: Re: The need to unmake move

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:13:30 09/03/03

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On September 03, 2003 at 10:10:53, Sune Fischer wrote:

>What I mean is, that since communication between threads is expensive it is
>better to keep it to a minimum, obviously.
>
>Hence it is more efficient for the tread that discoveres something new to
>'message' the other threads when that (rare) event happens, then for the other
>threads to check for new 'messages' at *every* node.
>
>Of course the message should be delivered in the child threads local mailbox,
>with low latency.
>
>Or am I missing something?

Yes. To discover whether it has happened, you need score updates from
the other processors anyway.

You end up doing remote memory access whatever you solution you try.

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GCP



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