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Subject: Re: Glaurung SMP: Beta testers with dual Macs or Linux boxes wanted

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:34:17 02/20/06

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On February 20, 2006 at 09:23:01, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On February 20, 2006 at 06:45:17, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>My parallel search code uses POSIX threads, which means that it cannot be
>>compiled for Windows without some changes.  Therefore, the current version
>>is for Linux and Mac OS X only (there will be a Windows version later, of
>>course).
>
>There are a few libraries around that implement POSIX threads on windows.

I know, but they are said to be terribly inefficient.  Dann tried to compile
a Windows binary for me using one of these libraries last week, and the results
were rather unimpressive.

Adding native Win32 threads seems much better, and it cannot possibly be very
hard.  My parallel search code is very simple and compact, and doesn't use any
advanced POSIX threads features.  All I need is the ability to launch
additional threads during program initialisation, and some locking and
unlocking during the search.

Tord




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