Like I said, installed from the standard Ubuntu rep. Yes, info says multithread support. It says SSE/SSE2 support. What about SSE3/4 etc, or they confer no real improvement over SSE2?
-Joseph On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 09:58, Øystein Schønning-Johansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> > >> >
