Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 15:55:07 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 18:39:23, Ryan B. wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 18:12:36, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>This is almost the exact version which played in the CCT, except >>that a tiny quiescence bug has been fixed, and that the program finally >>sends information about hash usage to the GUI. It's funny, Glaurung has >>been available for download for about one and a half year, and nobody >>ever complained about the missing hash usage information. Then, >>suddenly, two people complained during the same day. >> > >I notice you also fixed the checks in qsearch limit issue from the last SMP >version. I did. Hence the reference to the "tiny quiescence bug" in my quoted paragraph above. :-) >I believed the hash sharing myth. Seeing your code has already helped me. I am >confident may others will be helped by your code in same way. I hope so. YBWC isn't only almost as easy as sharing the hash table, it is also much more fun! >Thanks, Tord. You're welcome. :-) >>The "Deep" prefix is embarassingly silly, especially >>for those of us who have been around long enough to remember how it >>all started. > >A family member of mine once asked me if I know anything about the PC version of >Deep Blue, you know the Junior one... For the benefit of those who were *not* here when it all started, I'll give a brief summary: I assume that everybody has heard about Deep Blue. IBM also had a light-weight version of Deep Blue, running on a much lower number of processors, which they decided to call "Deep Blue Jr". The Junior team became furious because they felt that IBM tried to steal their name, and some extraordinarily stupid and unnecessary flamewars about the topic arose in the CCC. A while later, in what to all neutral observers looked like a mind-bogglingly childish attempt to make a point (I'm not sure that's what it was, but it certainly looked so), the first parallel version of Junior was released as "Deep Junior". To my amazement, this almost instantly became the standard naming convention for parallel versions of previously single-threaded programs. It didn't last long before Deep Shredder, Deep Fritz and Deep Sjeng appeared on the scene. Tord
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