Number
This setting can be used to control the Number of threads the SwiftDPS engine should utilise.
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Setting
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Value (threads)
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Type
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Number
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0 - 9999
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Integer
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0 = Use all cores (1 thread per CPU core)
1 = Use one thread
2 = Use two threads
3 = Use three threads
and so on...
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Threading explained:-
In general a processor can only work on one thread per core. CPU's with hyper threading can work on up to two threads per core, usually a user is unaware that their quad core computer only has 2 physical cores, the other two being virtual cores 'Hyper Threads'.
SwiftDPS counts physical and virtual cores (if applicable) as available threads, so a setting of 0 on a quad core CPU equals 4 threads. As cores can only run a single thread at a time it is not recommended or economical to run more threads (cores) than available. For example, if you set number of threads to 10 on a quad core CPU then 4 threads will need to execute and finish before the remaining threads can be executed and so on, therefore it would not be economical to do so.