还有一个Windows秘方:使用系统范围的环境变量NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS:

printf("%d\n", atoi(getenv("NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS")));

Hwloc (http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/)值得一看。虽然需要将另一个库集成到代码中，但它可以提供关于处理器的所有信息(核数、拓扑结构等)。

Windows Server 2003及以后版本允许您利用GetLogicalProcessorInformation函数

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683194.aspx

#include <stdint.h>

#if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
#include <sys/sysctl.h>

uint32_t num_physical_cores(void)
{
    uint32_t num_cores      = 0;
    size_t num_cores_len    = sizeof(num_cores);

    sysctlbyname("hw.physicalcpu", &num_cores, &num_cores_len, 0, 0);

    return num_cores;
}
#elif defined(__linux__)
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
uint32_t num_physical_cores(void)
{
    uint32_t lcores = 0, tsibs = 0;

    char buff[32];
    char path[64];

    for (lcores = 0;;lcores++) {
        FILE *cpu;

        snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu%u/topology/thread_siblings_list", lcores);

        cpu = fopen(path, "r");
        if (!cpu) break;

        while (fscanf(cpu, "%[0-9]", buff)) {
            tsibs++;
            if (fgetc(cpu) != ',') break;
        }

        fclose(cpu);
    }

    return lcores / (tsibs / lcores);
}
#else
#error Unrecognized operating system
#endif

这将返回系统上的物理核数。这与大多数答案提供的逻辑核数量不同。如果您希望确定一个不执行阻塞I/O且不休眠的线程池的大小，那么您希望使用物理内核的数量，而不是逻辑(超线程)内核的数量。

这个答案只提供Linux和bsd的实现。

Note that "number of cores" might not be a particularly useful number, you might have to qualify it a bit more. How do you want to count multi-threaded CPUs such as Intel HT, IBM Power5 and Power6, and most famously, Sun's Niagara/UltraSparc T1 and T2? Or even more interesting, the MIPS 1004k with its two levels of hardware threading (supervisor AND user-level)... Not to mention what happens when you move into hypervisor-supported systems where the hardware might have tens of CPUs but your particular OS only sees a few.

最好的情况是告诉您在本地OS分区中拥有的逻辑处理单元的数量。除非您是管理程序，否则不要考虑看到真正的机器。今天这个规则唯一的例外是在x86领域，但非虚拟机的末日很快就会到来……

您可能无法以独立于平台的方式获得它。Windows有处理器的数量。

Win32系统信息