Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:30:07 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 21:10:37, Terry Presgrove wrote: >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 A fifty-year old brain should be very good! A brain can increase in quality every day! S.T.
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