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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.

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