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What follows is based on the assumption a lot of homogeneous work, mainly calculations, is to be performed and can be organized in a (small) number of threads without needing lots of synchronization. It would not apply to inhomogeneous operations, say some threads performing calculations, others disk I/O, others network I/O, etc.
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In general I would base my considerations on the number of threads that can be active at the same time; this would ignore the physical aspects involved such as separate packaging, multi-core, hyper-threading... So the number of (logical) processors returned by GetSystemInfo() is what I would use.

The one exception would be applications where performance is dominated by cache efficiency; if so, what really matters is the number of separate level-2 caches available, which could be better approximated by the number of physical processors.

Hint: what would be keeping you from trying both? As your threading code would be dynamic anyway, why not perform an experiment? or even make it automatic: run with N threads for a while, then try 2*N and see if that is an improvement, then decide.

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