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[Fermin Serrano]

Hello, a question about thread-architecture:

I programmed Rodin with main thread to handle WB protocol and a thread created at startup to engine-think. I have seen engines that only uses one thread and call a kind of "bioskey" function to ask if new user/gui data is available. Is second aproach more efficient that the first for a non-SMP engine? I ask this because I have read that windows usually need CPU time when there are more than one thread to handle them propertly. Maybe that time would be useful for the engine.....

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Fermin
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