Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 18:10:37 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 20:41:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Bob, Thanks ...I get the general picture and that may be about as much as this 50 year old brain can handle. Should of stayed with programming after I learned basic with my old Radio shack COCO. Gave up on it in the 80's and have regreted it ever since. After more than 10 years of not even having a computer I started over again just over three years ago.......the choices we make -;) TP
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