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-rw-r--r--Modules/ProcessorCount.cmake12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/ProcessorCount.cmake b/Modules/ProcessorCount.cmake
index bda23ab..47e266d 100644
--- a/Modules/ProcessorCount.cmake
+++ b/Modules/ProcessorCount.cmake
@@ -22,9 +22,17 @@ This function is guaranteed to return a positive integer (>=1) if it
succeeds. It returns 0 if there's a problem determining the processor
count.
+More generally accurate physical CPU count can be obtained via
+:command:`cmake_host_system_information`:
+
+.. code-block:: cmake
+
+ cmake_host_system_information(RESULT N
+ QUERY NUMBER_OF_PHYSICAL_CORES)
+
Example use, in a ctest -S dashboard script:
-::
+.. code-block:: cmake
include(ProcessorCount)
ProcessorCount(N)
@@ -33,8 +41,6 @@ Example use, in a ctest -S dashboard script:
set(ctest_test_args ${ctest_test_args} PARALLEL_LEVEL ${N})
endif()
-
-
This function is intended to offer an approximation of the value of
the number of compute cores available on the current machine, such
that you may use that value for parallel building and parallel