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Subject: Re: Thanks! You just saved me alot of money :)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:57:56 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 05:08:27, Peter Berger wrote:

>On February 13, 2004 at 00:39:38, robert flesher wrote:
>
>>Nt
>
>Did he?
>
>Maybe this is a misunderstanding. You asked if the program will run using
>multiple threads, and it will.
>
>You didn't ask about what performance improvement will be the result. HT will
>bring an additional 0%-30% depending on engine and position, which is much lower
>than what you would get from a multi-processor computer. As the computer still
>only has one physical processor, that's also logical.
>
>I recently bought a PIV3.2 with HT ability, but have only tried it with Crafty
>so far, when it is about "Deep" programs. For Crafty 19.10 +20% looks like a
>reasonable speedup number on average.
>
>Peter

Additionally it will not work well for Shredder for example which was the
original question.





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