[fpc-devel] make -j for windows, number of cores?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> 2. I intend to detect the number of logical cores as per
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Example_of_multi-threaded_application:_array_of_threads#1._Detect_number_of_cores_available.
> and run that many jobs. Is that a good idea?

That's non-portable, even on Linux. There's a syscall which returns a 
bit vector of available CPUs, you need to count those bits since the 
layout might be sparse.

qqv taskset(1), sched_setaffinity(2), sched_getaffinity(2)

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