Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:12:28 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 14:03:52, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On November 13, 2005 at 13:44:44, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On November 13, 2005 at 13:34:27, Peter Wolff wrote: >> >>>On November 13, 2005 at 13:27:57, steve j s joyce wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all, >>>> >>>> Zappa has clearly been having very strong results. Does anyone know the >>>>innovations that are being used, or is better hardware the key? >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Steve >>> >>> >>>Zappa does appear to be very, very strong, but exactly how strong it is will be >>>seen only when it's released to the general public and can be tested under equal >>>conditions (either as a single cpu version or a multi-processor version, playing >>>other engines that are not handicapped by lack of strong HW). >>> >>>It seems that Zappa's release is imminent though :-) >>> >>>My prediction is that it will have to do much better than in the short events >>>such as the WCCC or Leiden to show that's better than Deep Shredder on a fast >>>dual or quad box, or even stronger than the new SMP Gandalf, for that matter. >>>Not to mention the new kid on the block which is getting ready to go SMP, >>>Fruit... >>> >>>In any case, we will soon be having lots of fun :-) >> >>I do not think that fruit is ready to go SMP >> >>I understand that Fabien plans to do it SMP only in spring 2006 and this mean >>half year from now and today there are other things that are planned earlier >>like backward analysis capability and weak levels. > >If Fabien has a decent SMP version already in Spring 2006 then he is very fast >in implementing SMP because this means _major_ changes to the engine. Naah. It takes about 2-3 months of *fulltime* work. The question is if Fabien is working fulltime on it or not. Last time I talked to him, he was! -- GCP
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