Re: [gnugo-devel] multi-threaded GNU go

[Erik Jonsson]

Have you looked at Slugo?

http://sluggo.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/

/Erik J.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Christian Bienia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > I was the one trying to implement multi-threaded branch [1].  With all due
> > > respect, I doubt it is doable without good knowledge how the engine is
> > > implemented internally.  E.g. you need to synchronize or split to one per
> > > thread several caches that exist etc.  The branch never reached working
> > > state as I abandoned it, as far as I remember after unpromising timing
> > > results.
> > > 
> > > [1] cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnugo -r multi-board co gnugo
> > 
> > See the list archives around April 2005.
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2005-04/
> 
> That's too bad. :-( Multi-threading would be a great enhancement for GNU
> go. I suppose I'll have to find something else for the students. Any
> ideas for alternatives will be appreciated a lot.
> 
> Are there any plans to reconsider that decision, given the fact that the
> two major chip producers will stop producing single-core processors this
> year? As Darren pointed out:
> 
> > the future is multi-core not higher clock speeds. Unfortunately.
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
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