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doc: add parallelism note to os.cpus()
With the introduction of os.availableParallelism(), users should no longer rely on os.cpus().length to determine the amount of available parallelism. This commit adds a note to the os.cpus() docs. PR-URL: #45895 Reviewed-By: Moshe Atlow <moshe@atlow.co.il> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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`nice` values are POSIX-only. On Windows, the `nice` values of all processors
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`os.cpus().length` should not be used to calculate the amount of parallelism
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available to an application. Use
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[`os.availableParallelism()`](#osavailableparallelism) for this purpose.
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## `os.devNull`
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