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Support passing auto as the value to the JULIA_NUM_THREADS environment variable #38952

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With this pull request, if the JULIA_NUM_THREADS environment variable is set to auto, then the number of threads is set automatically to the number of CPU threads. This is similar to the behavior of the --threads=auto command-line flag.

Example usage:

$ export JULIA_NUM_THREADS="auto"
$ ./julia
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julia> Threads.nthreads()
4

julia> ENV["JULIA_NUM_THREADS"]
"auto"

@DilumAluthge DilumAluthge added the multithreading Base.Threads and related functionality label Dec 20, 2020
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vtjnash commented Dec 21, 2020

Landed in 684d5fc (with style nits fixed)

@vtjnash vtjnash closed this Dec 21, 2020
@DilumAluthge DilumAluthge deleted the dpa/julia-num-threads-env-auto branch December 21, 2020 19:57
DilumAluthge added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 29, 2020
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* Update the docs for the `JULIA_NUM_THREADS` environment variable
* Add NEWS for #38952
ElOceanografo pushed a commit to ElOceanografo/julia that referenced this pull request May 4, 2021
* Update the docs for the `JULIA_NUM_THREADS` environment variable
* Add NEWS for JuliaLang#38952
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