From: Andrey Tcherepanov (moyt63c02_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-11 11:56:08
If you guys have some static windows build of all the tests and batch file
to run it in one zip file, I can try to run it on our 16 cores machine
(4CPU x 4cores or 2x4xHyperThreading) during low load times. If you
interested of course...
Regards,
Andrey.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:42:16 -0700, Howard Hinnant <hinnant_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:
>
>> Anthony Williams:
>>
>>> Adding yield() to try-and-back-off helps with some mutex
>>> implementations,
>>> and is
>>> effectively a no-op in others, so is worth adding.
>>
>> I think that I would like to see how the algorithms scale to a
>> number of
>> cores equaling the number of philosophers before agreeing with that.
>> As Phil
>> notes, extra yields are not a problem if another thread can use the
>> time to
>> do something useful.
>
> Hey, Peter has volunteered to buy a 16 core machine for us to
> experiment on! :-)
>
> -Howard
>
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