POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Processor Groups : Re: Processor Groups Server Time
2 Jul 2024 10:45:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Processor Groups  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 4 May 2010 16:17:54
Message: <4be080f2$1@news.povray.org>
Fredrik Eriksson wrote:

> Windows clusters processors into groups of no more than 64 in each group 
> for performance reasons.

there are also some restrictions in the classic api such as the
integer bitmask for thread affinities which only has so many bits.
On a 32-bit system the limit is 32 logical cores. Probably a case
of "32 cores ought to be enough for everybody" ;)


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