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Add --threads / -j to control number of compute threads #5021

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@emilk emilk commented Feb 2, 2024

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You can now control the number of threads in the rayon thread pool using -j or --threads. The default is -2, meaning two less threads than the number of cores. This is to leave some breathing room for other threads the viewer spawns, as well as the rest of the users system.

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@emilk emilk added 📉 performance Optimization, memory use, etc CLI Related to the Rerun CLI labels Feb 2, 2024
@emilk emilk marked this pull request as ready for review February 2, 2024 15:45
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lgtm!
please fix typo and fight me on clippy lint! 😄

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let mut builder = rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new().thread_name(|i| format!("rayon-{i}"));

if threads_args < 0 {
match std::thread::available_parallelism() {
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I didn't know this method and I absolutely love the concept and its docs. For posterity: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.available_parallelism.html

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@emilk emilk merged commit 13f1852 into main Feb 5, 2024
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CLI argument for setting max number of viewer threads
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