Date   : Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:20:34 -0300
From   : mlist@... (Steven Flintham)
Subject: BBC mandelbrot generator (preview)

On 22 April 2010 10:38, Tom Seddon <tom@...> wrote:

> Steven Flintham:
> > I don't know much about second processors, but I wonder if it would be
> > feasible to write a version which actually splits the Mandelbrot
> > calculations between the two CPUs? My gut feeling is that just handling
> > the
> > plotting can't really be taking up that much of the host processor's
> time.
>
> This sort of parallel processing is my intention, and the reason I started
> writing my program in the first place was just to see how well it works.
> (I'm intending to use the work pool technique. I don't think it should be
> too complicated, just needs a bit of memory. This should provide fair
> parallelism fairly automatically, even if the two CPUs differ in speed.)
>

Yeah, that sounds great if it's possible. I hope you can pull it off, just
for the coolness factor.

Or you could just speed up the video on youtube and refuse to release the
code, which would be a lot easier. :-)

Steve