num_cores: find number of cores in your PC's processor

By Vasudev Ram

Here is a simple D language utility, num_cores.d, which, when compiled (once) and run (any number of times), will show you the number of cores in the processor in your PC:

// num_cores.d
// A utility to show the number of cores in the processor in your PC.

import std.stdio;
import std.parallelism;

int num_cores() {
    return totalCPUs;
}

void main() {
    writeln("This computer's processor has ", num_cores, " core(s).");
}

The program uses the function totalCPUs from the D standard library module std.parallelism to get the number of cores.

To use it, download and install a D compiler such as DMD, the Digital Mars D compiler (or LDC or GDC). Use of DMD is shown here.

Then compile the program with:

dmd num_cores.d

Then run it:

num_cores

Output:

This computer's processor has 4 core(s).

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