Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:25:45 11/01/99
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On November 01, 1999 at 19:49:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On November 01, 1999 at 18:20:21, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>On November 01, 1999 at 16:10:04, James B. Shearer wrote:
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>>> What advantage? We will give both programs multiprocessors. If other
>>>programs are too backward to use the extra processors that's not Hyatt's fault.
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>>That's interesting. So you consider most of the top programs to be backward?
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>> Christophe
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>Must the world revolve around hyperbole?
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>He didn't say commercial engines are backward. He said "if they are too
>backward to use the extra processors..."
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>There's a world of difference.
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>You said "In a few years all commercial engines will be using a parallel
>search..." in another post. I wonder if they will develop their own, or if
>they will read the 20 years of parallel search research that has been done,
>and then use that?
>
>hmmm...
I don't know. Personally I would prefer to have the time to think about the
problem by myself right from the start. I have always done this in the past,
because I did not have access to documentation about computer chess, and I have
found this to be powerful.
Not because I am bright (I don't think I am, I'm just determined). But when you
think hard enough on a problem and find your own way, you can understand much
better what has been published and take the most out of it.
So I hope I'll have enough time to dive into this on my own as a first step,
then will read known techniques and try to find the best mixture between my own
stuff and public stuff.
I hope the commercial pressure will not prevent me from doing it well.
But I still see many improvements to do in my serial program, so I'm not really
looking forward SMP.
Christophe
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