std.threads : smp programming

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:43:15 +0300, Wiz <clem.codeur at gmail.com> wrote:

> std.threads is a great lib, helped me more than one time.
> But there was a missing thing, something to really help programmers
> making smp code.
> We need to create a thread by core/cpu, but, there is nothing like a
> function that return the number of processors.

I'd just like to add that on Windows, this is done using the GetSystemInfo function (the dwNumberOfProcessors field of the SYSTEM_INFO structure).

There's some more info on the subject in this Tango ticket:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/371

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