Re: [gnugo-devel] GNU Go as an oracle

[Dave Denholm]

Andrew Derrick Balsa <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 07 November 2002 16:30, Dave Denholm wrote:
> [...]
> > > > pthreads is the posix threads package. There are various
> > > > implementations for linux and win32, so that would probably be the most
> > > > portable approach. And of course solaris, hpux, aix etc offer pthreads.
> > > > Don't know about macos.
> > > >
> [...]
> > More interesting is a set of API's portable across unix and non-unix
> > operating systems.
> 
> As you mentioned above, there are POSIX threads libraries for most, if not 
> all 
> Unixes, and also for Win32. 
> 
> Perhaps the only way to make Dan's oracle patch portable, is to reimplement 
> it 
> with POSIX threads. On SMP machines this would allow GNU Go to run in a truly 
> parallel way, on most platforms.
> 


OTOH, networks of single-CPU machines are probably more common than SMP 
machines.
Perhaps a mechanism to serve work out to remote machines might prove as, if
not more, useful.


dd
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