Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:34:06 10/25/03
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On October 25, 2003 at 10:53:56, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On October 24, 2003 at 20:35:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 24, 2003 at 15:45:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On October 24, 2003 at 15:16:24, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>No threads?! How do you conduct parallel search then (if I may ask)? >>> >>>Multiprocessing + shared memory >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >> >>IE fork() + either mmap() or shmget()/shmat(). > >And under Windows? CreateProcess? _beginthreadex() > > >> >>It has some drawbacks. Eugene's probe code is threaded. Not using >>threads hurts there, as you don't get the LRU buffer management >>efficiency in the egtb cache. It might help marginally on a NUMA box >>to have separate copies of the code/read-only data on each processor's >>local memory (Eugene doesn't think this is much of a factor however, >>due to cache sizes on larger NUMA boxes).
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