> I'd my program (a threaded image processing system based on gthread) > to be able to find out how many cores the host machine has.
First a terminological nit: Don't confuse "cores" with "processors". There were machines with a high degree of symmetrical multiprocessing (i.e. lots of processors) a *long* time before multi-core chips appeared on the market. > int g_thread_get_cores( void ); Well, firstly the function name should use "processors" and not "cores". But I think that in general such a function would be too simplistic, and just look at things from the perspective of the current low end of the market. Whether it's worth to try to design a suitable GLib abstraction for such things, I don't know. In serious parallelism, you need more advanced API anyway, you need to consider things like NUMA, asymmetric multiprocessing etc. (Note, I am certainly not an expert here.) You will almost certainly need some platform-dependent code, surely? Or use other libraries that already do it for you? --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
