From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: disable threading in all but worktree case
Message-ID: <201112070911.08079.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4EDE9BBA.2010409@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 02.12.2011 17:15, schrieb René Scharfe:
> > How about adding a parameter to control the number of threads 
> > (--threads?) instead that defaults to eight (or five) for the worktree 
> > and one for the rest? That would also make benchmarking easier.
> 
> Like this:
> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: grep: add parameter --threads
> 
> Allow the number of threads to be specified by the user.  This makes
> benchmarking the performance impact of different numbers of threads
> much easier.

Sounds good, though in the end we would also want to have a config
variable for the poor OS X users who have to tune their threads
*down*... :-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch