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Subject: Re: Quad scaling ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:14:56 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 03:22:46, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On August 25, 2005 at 14:44:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Of course that is true.  A crappy search, twice as fast, is just twice as
>>crappy.  So "decent program" is a given before considering a parallel search
>>implementation.  Although an experienced programmer would probably want to
>>design in the capability for parallel search from the ground-up, as it is far
>>easier than stuffing it in way later in the development...
>
>And what would be the key points in a "design in the capability for parallel
>search"?
>The organisation of data structures?
>
>regards
>Andy


For one thing, yes.  Also global data and how it is used or modified.  And then
the basic Search() implementation and how a node in the tree might be split up
and searched in parallel with minimal changes to the basic code.



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