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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

Determining Processor Availability

Multiprocessing Services provides the following functions for determining the number of processors available on the host computer:

• MPProcessors returns the number of processors on the host computer.
• MPProcessorsScheduled returns the number of active processors available on the host computer.