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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 16/03/2014 10:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 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)
> 

Thanks, guys - and also Mattias who I noticed has already updated the
code on the wiki ;)