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Subject: Re: Multiprocessing question

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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