On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Freddie Unpenstein <fredde...@excite.com> wrote:
> I'm only throwing my 2c in on this topic, because I'd think what the API > should be counting is simply how many threads of this application could > conceivably be running simultaneously. Any other measure should be left to a > more general system information interface (eg. one that individually > numerates each processor and its featues, the cores on that processor and > their features, and so forth). > > For example, if I've got two duel-core processors, I'd like to know that I > can run 4 threads simultaneously. I don't really care whether it's one chip > with four cores, or two chips with two cores each. And if I *DO* care, I > probably need to know a fair bit more than just the count anyhow. indeed. your process might be running on a CPU group with less CPUs than the machine actually has. knowing the number of installed processors can be very different from knowing a sensible value for max threads. and even a sensible value for max threads can depend a great deal on what the threads will actually do, of course. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
