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Subject: Re: Multiprocessing question

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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