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Re: [Bug-gnubg] Simple multi-threading...


From: Jonathan Kinsey
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Simple multi-threading...
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:41:20 +0000
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Øystein Johansen wrote:
> This sounds really good! How does it work?
> What do you thread? Each candidate move? Each dice roll? Does it
thread into many threads?

I picked AnalyseGame() as it logically divides the tasks into move
records, the tasks get put in a list and then the threads (which are
user specified in number - I've used an Intel sample to guess a good
number) take things off the list and call AnalyseMove() as required.

> Which library do you use? pthreads? glib threads?

Initially I've coded the multi-threaded calls directly using the windows
API, it should be easy to convert this to pthreads (or maybe glib) -
there are only 5 or so lines of code using multi-threaded functions.

> (I remember I once tried threading in the evaluations functions and made one 
> tread each dice roll in the lookahead. That failed completly.)

I did consider the evaluation functions (as it would be the ideal
solution in one sense - i.e. it would multi-thread everything in one
go), they're not great candidates for multi-threading though.

> BTW: I just got a new computer, and I would love to utilize the dual core. 
> The computer is so new that I've not been able to install any build and 
> development tools yet, but I sure will. Maybe I even ditch the WinXP system 
> and have a pure Linux. 

I'll try and check the initial code in tonight - I'll add a
USE_MULTITHREADED guard to the new code.

Jon

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