[MUD-Dev] Text Parsing

[Jon A. Lambert]

On 10 Jun 99,, Katrina McClelan wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> 
> > Money isn't a serious issue, but the problem is that we have a
> > single-threaded server, so, unless I've been informed incorrectly, dual
> > processors won't help us.
> > 
> 
> Well if you start a compile or other processes related to the mud, that
> aren't the actual game server while the mud is running it will help some,
> although this is stretching it quite a bit... :)  In all likelyhood won't
> be worth the added cost for SMP in this case.
> 
I was working on a server application that was single-threaded and the 
only app running.  We added a second processor and had a measurable 
increase in performance, around 15%.  This was on a DEC Alpha, running 
VMS.  This was with no changes to the application.  The App was disk
I/O intensive, if that helps.
It depends on how your OS farms the kernel functions out to the other 
processors.  The same is certainly true on NT most of the time.  Best to 
check out references to his particular OS.  As always YMMV. :)


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