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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:26:40 02/20/06

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On February 20, 2006 at 06:45:17, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>The dual CPU version of my engine isn't quite polished enough for a public
>release yet, but it's getting closer.  My current version seems rather stable
>on my dual iMac, and is clearly stronger than Glaurung 1.0.x.
>
>In order to find and fix the most serious SMP bugs before I release the new
>version, I would like to find a few beta testers who can run some tests on
>various platforms.
>
>My parallel search code uses POSIX threads, which means that it cannot be
>compiled for Windows without some changes.  Therefore, the current version

Changing from posix threads to windows native threads is like a few defines in
header file. If you don't know how, then take a look for example in crafty.

Vincent

>is for Linux and Mac OS X only (there will be a Windows version later, of
>course).  If you run either of these on a dual or quad CPU machine and would
>like to test a highly experimental SMP version of Glaurung, please send an
>e-mail to moc.ssehcgnurualg@drot (written backwards, just in case some
>spambots are reading this forum).
>
>Tord



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