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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 7:37 PM Joseph Heled <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am out of the loop too, but speeding up rollouts (i.e. using modern >> multicores) seems like a worthy improvement. > > > Isn't that done already? > > 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? > > -Øystein > >
