document how many threads are used for work in Ws_pool

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Simon Cruanes 2025-11-19 12:23:28 -05:00
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(** [create ()] makes a new thread pool.
@param on_init_thread
called at the beginning of each new thread in the pool.
@param min
minimum size of the pool. See {!Pool.create_args}. The default is
[Domain.recommended_domain_count()], ie one worker per CPU core. On OCaml
4 the default is [4] (since there is only one domain).
@param num_threads
number of worker threads. See {!Ws_pool.create} for more details.
@param on_exit_thread called at the end of each worker thread in the pool.
@param name name for the pool, used in tracing (since 0.6) *)

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(** Work-stealing thread pool.
A pool of threads with a worker-stealing scheduler. The pool contains a
fixed number of threads that wait for work items to come, process these, and
loop.
fixed number of worker threads that wait for work items to come, process
these, and loop.
This is good for CPU-intensive tasks that feature a lot of small tasks. Note
that tasks will not always be processed in the order they are scheduled, so
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in it to stop (after they finish their work), and wait for them to stop.
The threads are distributed across a fixed domain pool (whose size is
determined by {!Domain.recommended_domain_count} on OCaml 5, and simply the
single runtime on OCaml 4). *)
determined by {!Domain.recommended_domain_count}. See {!create} for more
details. *)
include module type of Runner
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@param num_threads
size of the pool, ie. number of worker threads. It will be at least [1]
internally, so [0] or negative values make no sense. The default is
[Domain.recommended_domain_count()], ie one worker thread per CPU core. On
OCaml 4 the default is [4] (since there is only one domain).
[Domain.recommended_domain_count()], ie one worker thread per CPU core.
Note that specifying [num_threads=n] means that the degree of parallelism is
at most [n]. This behavior is different than the one of [Domainslib], see
https://github.com/c-cube/moonpool/issues/41 for context.
If you want to use all cores, use [Domain.recommended_domain_count()].
@param on_exit_thread called at the end of each thread in the pool
@param name
a name for this thread pool, used if tracing is enabled (since 0.6) *)