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Subject: Re: Amazing results by Zappa. Does anyone know what are the innovations

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:15:57 11/13/05

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On November 13, 2005 at 14:12:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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


I guess that the time that it takes is dependent on the programmer and Fabien is
better programmer than other programmers.

Uri



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