Re: --progress output refers to cores rather than threads

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 3:21 AM Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On my system:
>
> $ parallel --number-of-threads
> 20
> $ parallel --number-of-cores
> 14
> $ parallel --progress "sleep" ::: 1 1
>
> Computers / CPU cores / Max jobs to run
> 1:local / 20 / 20
>
> Computer:jobs running/jobs completed/%of started jobs/Average seconds
> to complete
> local:0/2/100%/0.5s
>
> So the output says "cores" when it should say "threads".  The
> cores/threads distinction is discussed in the documentation, but I'd
> still say "CPU threads" to be clearer.

Expect a fix in next release.

/Ole