Re: current development

[Øystein Schønning-Johansen]

Did you compile from source or install a binary from a packet manager?

Does it say multi-thread support in: Help->About->Build Info ?

-Øystein

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:46 PM Joseph Heled <address@hidden> wrote:

All I know is that I installed gnubg from the repository (GNU
Backgammon 1.06.002) and the rollouts speed seemed terrible.

Do I need to do something in the GUI to enable multi-threading? (and I
hope that by multi-threading we are talking about multi-core, not just
threading, which does not help)

-Joseph

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 09:38, Øystein Schønning-Johansen
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 7:37 PM Joseph Heled <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I am out of the loop too, but speeding up rollouts (i.e. using modern
>> multicores) seems like a worthy improvement.
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> Isn't that done already?
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> I think the code is multithreaded using gthreads from glib. I think it was done by Michael (and Philippe) some years ago. I haven't browsed the code that much in detail lately, so I'm not sure what it's threading on. Do you see an obvious improvement over the current threaded code?
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> -Øystein
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