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Author vstinner
Recipients jszakmeister, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, sbt, trent, vstinner
Date 2013-03-19.07:54:54
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Content 
I like the idea of a new function in the os module because I don't
like having to import the multiprocessing module just to known the
number of CPUs. I'm using such function to set MAKEFLAGS envrionment
variable on Linux: -j8 par example.

2013/3/19 Trent Nelson <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Trent Nelson added the comment:
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> I remember looking at what multiprocessing did and not really liking it; I ended up writing a C version that works across a wider range of platforms, accessible via posixmodule.c:posix_cpu_count() (os.cpu_count()):
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> http://hg.python.org/sandbox/trent/file/dd1c2fd3aa31/Modules/posixmodule.c#l10213
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