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Subject: Re: What is SMP? (NT)

Author: Salvador H Cresce

Date: 11:38:15 02/23/06

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On February 23, 2006 at 04:30:20, Tord Romstad wrote:

>"Symmetric multiprocessing".  It means that on machines with more than
>one CPU (or with a dual core CPU), the program will be able to use all
>of them, which makes it run much faster.  The SMP support in Glaurung
>is still a bit restricted, though.  It cannot use more than two CPUs
>at the moment.
>
>Glaurung 1.0.2 will run exactly as fast on a computer with two CPUs
>as on a computer with only one of these CPUs.  My current version
>runs almost twice as fast on the computer with two CPUs.
>
>Tord

Tord, then, Glaurung 1.0.2 is identical program than Glaurung 1.0.2 SMP when
running in a computer with 1 CPU, right?

Salvador



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