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

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 06:50:27 02/20/06

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>>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.

Strange, I didn't have that experience. But then, I don't use locks at all in
search. The threads I use are solely for I/O.

>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.

yes, but it messes up at least part of your code ...
Richard.



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