Does the HTML5 worker threads feature expose the number of cores on a machine?

Question

I'm playing with HTML5 worker threads and I want to partition out some work according to available cores. Is there a way to get the number of cores on the machine from JavaScript?

Answer 1

You can try to estimate the number of cores with: https://github.com/oftn/core-estimator

demo: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/cpu-core-estimation-with-javascript