Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>wrote:

> On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey <me@eligrey.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles
> >> all of the CPUs you mentioned properly.
> >>
> >> Intel CPUs with hyperthreading enabled report logical cores as double
> >> the hardware cores. Depending on the version and configuration of the
> >> Samsung Exynos Octa big.LITTLE CPUs, you will get either 4 logical
> >> cores (only one cluster can run at a time) or 8 logical cores
> >> (big.LITTLE MP, available in Exynos 5420 or later only).
> >>
> >
> > Great!
> > Make sure this is captured when it is put in a specification.
> > Otherwise the subtlety between an actual and a logical core might get
> lost.
>
> Shouldn't this also be captured in the API's name?
>

Maybe navigator.hardwareConcurrency as a nod to the C++11 name?

Adam

Received on Sunday, 4 May 2014 13:50:39 UTC