So far all numbers seem to confirm my initial statement that CPUs didn't get all that much faster during recent years. The focus is more on getting more cores working together faster.
I think a lot could be gained if multi-threading could be used on a more fine-grained level. For that we need faster task-switching. If task-switching could be done in a microsecond instead of hundreds of microseconds then it would be much easier to take advantage of larger numbers of cores. But there are more bottlenecks to overcome to make massive parallelism a reality of course. Mark _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
