Did you compile from source or install a binary from a packet manager? Does it say multi-thread support in: Help->About->Build Info ?
-Øystein On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:46 PM Joseph Heled <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
