Re: [PATCH] core-count: A new program to count the number of cpu cores

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > seq 1 13 | xargs --parallel -P4
> > 1 5 9 13
> > 2 6 10
> > 3 7 11
> > 4 8 12
> >
> > (Note there's no -n).  Same for
> >
> > seq 1 13 | xargs --parallel
> >
> > on a 4-core machine.  This is _by design_ rearranging files, so it
> > requires an option.
>
> Right, you're not auto decreasing -n, but when we read all args and
> we pass arguments round robin, the args will be distrubuted evenly to
> each parallel process. Does this really require a new option though?
> When -P is used, the arguments could be processed in any order anyway.

Especially since -P is not POSIX, I'd say no.  Good catch.

Paolo