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

[Arthur Miller]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
We must have been typing at the same time :).