On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Fafhrd wrote:
> Anyone have any tips on coding for SMP? We recently put Duris on a dual
>400 board, and I was wondering how I'd take full advantage of this. I
>believe we need to specifically tell certain code to use the second
>processor? find_first_step() would be a prime candidate for that...
Unless you fork() or use threads, there won't be any benefit. Well, maybe a
little benefit since all the system stuff can run on one processor and your
MUD on the other.
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George Greer | Shirak's CircleMUD for Windows help
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