[racket] processor-count

From: Ryan Culpepper (ryan at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 6 02:57:24 EDT 2011

Racket *threads* are not truly parallel. So Racket only uses a single 
core, unless you use *futures* and/or *places*.

Ryan


On 10/05/2011 11:05 PM, Ivanyi Peter wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is there any reason why the (processor-count) function is only available
> in the futures module?
> For example if I want to start number of threads that is equal to the
> number of cores,
> I also need to require the futures module. Is there any way around it?
> Should there be any other way? :-)
> Thanks,
> Peter Ivanyi
>
>
>
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