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Subject: Re: Deep Junior question

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:47:08 12/06/99

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On December 06, 1999 at 08:55:04, Amir Ban wrote:

>On December 06, 1999 at 03:26:43, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 1999 at 22:15:29, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>
>>>Does it allow you to specify how many processors to use?
>>
>>No, it creates as many threads as there are processors. It may have been a good
>>idea to make it configurable, but I didn't.
>>
>> (e.g. the machine has
>>>four, you might want to use three and keep one for other stuff)  Or maybe it
>>>might include the regular Junior too (which would use only one, of course).
>>>
>>
>>It includes the Junior6 engine of course.
>>
>
>I rechecked this and I need to correct this information: Since the speed of DJ6
>on a single processor is only slightly less than J6, it was decided not to
>include the J6 engine in the DJ6 CD.
>
>This is again because we didn't foresee a requirement to use less processor
>power than available in Deep Junior. Whenever there'll be a patch download,
>we'll throw in this feature.
>
>Amir

That will be cool.  One of the best things about having a multi-processor
machine is setting one task to go and do some serious crunching, while going and
working on something else interactively, without your machine feeling sluggish.
It's kind of like having two computers, but less desktop clutter! ;-)

Dave



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