GCD exposes core count in that you can make your jobs keep track of the current time and then count how many threads are running at the same time. A GCD-style API will enable me to replace all of Core Estimator's estimation and statistical code with a very simple counter and time tracker, while yielding fully accurate core counts.
I honestly cannot think of a system that doesn't make it possible to derive core count even easier than I currently can. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2014, Kenneth Russell wrote: >> >> It would be great to design a new parallelism architecture for the web, >> but from a practical standpoint, no progress has been made in this area >> for a number of years, and web developers are hampered today by the >> absence of this information. > > Progress can be made imminently. Just tell me what you need. There's no > reason this has to take a long time. The only reason it isn't in the spec > already is that it hasn't been requested -- as far as I'm aware, until the > past week, the last person who mentioned it on the list was me, several > years ago. > > If multiple vendors are interested in a more elaborate solution that > doesn't expose more fingerprinting bits, we can do that right away. What > would be most helpful to do that is detailed descriptions of use cases, > common pitfalls, experience with existing systems like Apple's GCD, > strawman API proposals, and criticisms thereof. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
