Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNUbgW speedingup50%

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:03:06PM +0200, Øystein O Johansen wrote
> 
> > Multithreaded programming is one of the areas I'm currently
> > looking into, but don't expect anything soon.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a threading of EvaluatePositionCubeful3 using pthread. I was
> planning to make 21 threads at the top search level, one for each dice
> roll. I still have just the skeleton.

You should be careful. Perhaps we only want to start new treads at the
top level, otherwise we may end up starting 441 threads for a 2-ply
evaluation. 

I'm looking at multi-threading rollouts. Currently I'm just playing
around with pthreads.

And as Rob suggested we may perform analysis on the fly in the
background.

Jørn

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