Re: [PATCH] support for accessing CPU/core count (processor-count)

[Andy Moreton]

On Sun 10 Oct 2021, Campbell Barton wrote:

> Hi, this patch adds support for accessing the number of CPU's / cores on a
> system, matching CPython's multiprocessing.cpu_count() [0].
>
> I've only tested this for Linux, this includes code that should work on other
> platforms, although that would need to be double-checked of course.
> For reference I checked CPython / Blender & Stack-overflow [1]
>
> Accessing this information can be useful to automatically detect the number of
> jobs to run.

This logic already exists in `comp-effective-async-max-jobs' from
comp.el, as an internal implementation detail. Perhaps it would be
better to refactor that code.

    AndyM