Threading and Dell's dual-core

[bruce_brodinsky]

Don't know whether to post this on a hardware or software board, so
here goes:

I wrote a c# chess program which searches for checkmate. Now, it's
single-threaded. But I was thinking. I just got a Dell XPS dual-core
machine. If I modify the chess program to use threading, will it take
advantage of the dual-core machine? If so, is there any special code
(besides .Net threading) that I have to implement? Thanks in advance -
Bruce

 

[Bajoo]

Dear Bruce,
There are many MultiThreading Models. Windows NT works
on One to One Model , i.e. 1 User thread is mapped to 1 Kernel Thread.
This model allows Multiple Threads to run in parallel on
Multiprocessors.

Regards,
Naveed Ahmad Bajwa
http://bajoo.blogspot.com/

 

[Abubakar]

Hi,
since you r developing in .net, so if you look at blogs.msdn.com, some
bloggers there have been writing about how the .net 2.0 takes advantage of
dual-core machines. I think runtime does a lot of work for us to
automatically take advantage of dual-core. Searching for dual-core related
stuff on specifically blogs.msdn.com should be of help.

Ab.
http://joehacker.blogspot.com.