Test piece for starting threads that match the OS count.

[hutch--]

The test piece gets the thread count from the OS then starts that many threads. Its working ok on the computers I have to test on, if anyone has the time it would be useful to see if it works OK on other processors.

[Siekmanski]

Working OK, i7-4930K Win 8.1

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[aw27]

Not thread safe?

[avcaballero]

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[jj2007]

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[hutch--]

Looks like its working OK.

Jose, it should be  thread safe but the order tends to be a little out as some threads get emptied faster than others.

[TimoVJL]

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[daydreamer]

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maybe one of the cores are also used for output to screen/OS affect the result?
hyperthreads dont empty same as physical cores?

output in one thread and  in other thread calculation best?

[aw27]

But I think you want to print the thread launching ordinal, not the memory address, that's why you are increasing r13 after each launching.

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[hutch--]

I wanted the thread handle for future use of the thread where the numbering of each thread was to make sure that each thread started. Mixing the console output between the two produced some out of order output and the handles should have been recorded and displayed later but it has done what I expected it to do.

What I am look at is an adaptable technique that starts as many threads as are available on the processor running the code, suspends them until all are up and running and then resumes execution once the tasks are delegated to each thread.

As usual, thanks to all for doing the test as I currently only have 2 computers that I can test on.

[CMalcheski]

For optimal execution speed, don't make the assumption that the number of physical cores is always the number of available cores.  In my travels over the years I've seen enormous variation in execution speed overall depending on how many worker threads I've created (in this case, for downloading files).  You can never be sure what the OS is doing behind the scenes, and what resources it's claiming to do it.  Even if you did a calibration at run time to determine the most efficient number of concurrent threads, some massive operating system update could kick in right after the calibration and everything the calibration determined is suddenly off.  There is no perfect solution so I just set a max # of concurrent threads as the number of physical cores on the processor. 

[aw27]

For optimal execution speed, don't make the assumption that the number of physical cores is always the number of available cores.  In my travels over the years I've seen enormous variation in execution speed overall depending on how many worker threads I've created (in this case, for downloading files).  You can never be sure what the OS is doing behind the scenes, and what resources it's claiming to do it.  Even if you did a calibration at run time to determine the most efficient number of concurrent threads, some massive operating system update could kick in right after the calibration and everything the calibration determined is suddenly off.  There is no perfect solution so I just set a max # of concurrent threads as the number of physical cores on the processor.

This is widespread knowledge. Try to produce some code to prove whatever you want.

[hutch--]

There is more to thread counts than core count * 2 (if your processor has hyperthreading). A couple of factors effect what you can get out of it, the level of individual core saturation (very high intensity processing) and the speed of the core/thread.

If you are setting a thread count to data dribbling in on an internet connection, you can run a much higher thread count as the saturation level for each thread is low but if you are doing high intensity processing you are stuck with core count and thread count and going over this simply increases the thread overhead.

[daydreamer]

those examples showing use multiple threads,use same code for all threads,but when does it has advantage/disadvantage when you run two threads,one on physical and one on hyperthread vs two on physical cores?
same code but with different values in registers/flags makes least difference in performance,but if you have two completely different proc's running in two threads,its will make difference hyperthreads/physical cores

[hutch--]

Each thread has its own set of registers, the only variation when running identical code is with differences in the core speed. When you have different code on different threads, there is no means of comparison. You can clock each process but that requires the thread to finish.