Re: gthread: how many cores do I have?

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 at 14:31:24 +0000, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> On 15 March 2010 11:36, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> > Well, firstly the function name should use "processors" and not
> > "cores".

Why? Isn't the interesting metric the number of cores, rather than the number
of fully-independent CPUs? It's the number of cores that determines how many
concurrent threads you can have; the fact that some of your cores are on the
same CPU die is mostly an implementation detail.

(For instance, an old server with two separate Pentium II CPUs, and a modern
laptop with one dual-core CPU, could each run two threads at a time.)

Regards,
    smcv