Author: George Sobala
Date: 05:29:24 01/17/06
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On January 16, 2006 at 19:23:59, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 16, 2006 at 18:15:23, deep.thought wrote: > >>Realistically Vas, when will Rybka go SMP so that all of these quad owners can >>have a field day? > > >I see no reason that Rybka needs to make quad owners happy. > >Software improvement are more important than hardware improvement and I think >that it is not a good idea if vasik spend some months on supporting more >processors instead of spending the same time on making rybka significantly >better on a single processor. > >Uri That would be true BUT we are entering a phase of computer hardware development where desktop PCs are going to get faster each year by adopting multiprocessing more than by increasing clock speed of a single chip. So an SMP chess program makes more sense now for the average consumer than it did 5-10 years ago.
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