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@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ Controlling Backend Parallelism
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.. _parallelism:
-By default, the ThinLTO link step will launch up to
+By default, the ThinLTO link step will launch as many
+threads in parallel as there are cores. If the number of
+cores can't be computed for the architecture, then it will launch
``std::thread::hardware_concurrency`` number of threads in parallel.
For machines with hyper-threading, this is the total number of
virtual cores. For some applications and machine configurations this
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