How do I spawn threads on different CPU cores?

Question

Let\'s say I had a program in C# that did something computationally expensive, like encoding a list of WAV files into MP3s. Ordinarily I would encode the files one at a time

Answer 1

One of the reasons you should not (as has been said) try to allocated this sort of stuff yourself, is that you just don't have enough information to do it properly, particularly into the future with NUMA, etc.

If you have a thread read-to-run, and there's a core idle, the kernel will run your thread, don't worry.