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
> >
> >
>

Reply via email to