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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