Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:41:33 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 20:31:01, Terry Presgrove wrote: >Can someone explain in lamons terms how you get 3x the speed on a quad >over a single cpu? I just don't understand how for example crafty can utilize >the 4 cpu's to be 3.5 (or whatever) faster? How does the program actually >speed up is ( I guess ) the queston? . > >TP It uses each CPU to search a different part of the tree, and does these searches in parallel. Just like hiring 4 people to do some big job at your house.
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