Name: ddT132432 Date: 07/19/2001


all versions

Java needs to give programmers a way to ask how many processors are
online in a SMP system at runtime. It is silly to make the user provide this
information or to have to use native calls to ask the operating system.
SMP machines are so widely available these days, and Java's support for
them is so good, it does not make sense to hide this information (which
can potentially be used to make important programming decisions) from the
runtime environment.
(Review ID: 128424)
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