From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: How many hardware threads?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:31:54 -0700
Date: 2010-07-11T19:31:54-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i1dv5f$3fv$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c3a65d7$0$2405$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net>
On 07/11/2010 05:47 PM, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>
> I'm about to write a simple program that decomposes into parallel,
> compute-bound tasks quite nicely. How many such tasks should I create? I
> could ask the user to provide the number as a command line argument or
> in a configuration file. Yet it seems like the program should just be
> able to figure it out. Does Ada have a standard way of doing that? I
> didn't see anything in my (admittedly short) review.
No, it doesn't, and I've long thought it should.
GNAT has function System.Task_Info.Number_Of_Processors. But something standard
would be better.
--
Jeff Carter
"I feel as though somebody stepped on my tongue
with muddy feet."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 0:47 How many hardware threads? Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-12 2:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2010-07-12 17:04 ` Pascal Obry
2010-08-16 19:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-17 3:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-17 9:27 ` Pascal Obry
2010-07-12 2:38 ` tmoran
2010-07-12 7:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-12 17:14 ` Warren
2010-07-13 0:01 ` Gene
2010-07-13 1:09 ` Shark8
2010-07-12 10:08 ` anon
2010-07-12 11:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-07-12 11:47 ` Egil Høvik
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