[Insight-developers] suggestion: use environment variable to limit number of parallel threads

[Sean McBride]

On 9/20/07 9:11 AM, Torsten Rohlfing said:

>Well, no, that's not quite what I meant. See, the function you're 
>referring to allows you to set the number of threads from INSIDE an ITK 
>application, whereas I was suggesting a way of setting it from OUTSIDE 
>the application.

hmmm, perhaps I need more caffeine... :)  but ITK is just a big library
that is linked into an executable.  Can't your application just call
SetGlobalDefaultNumberOfThreads() early on (before you call other ITK
APIs), based on whatever env var you want?

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