In our previous episode, Ewald said: > > In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > >> CPUCount on Delphi does return the number of HT cores. E.g. "8" on an > >> Intel i7 QuadCore processor. > > Then I really wonder what it is good for. > For giving the program(mer) an idea?
"An idea" is IMHO not a wrong by a factor two :-) If Intel ever goes to four fold SMT (like Sun did), it is even worse. > As a default value for use in > configfiles (e.g. `-1 cores` = autodetect)? That is what I thought originally too, but if two nearly the same machine (i5 and its corresponding i7) differ by a factor 2, IMHO it is useless, and wiser to default to 2 until the user adjusts it. (or 1 if you also target an audience with a lot of legacy machines) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
