Better default for number of threads

Summary: Pull Request resolved: #659

Reviewed By: piotr-bojanowski

Differential Revision: D13318793

Pulled By: Celebio

fbshipit-source-id: 3b8fd28172b0291b2df93a526de630b01df680e8

python/fastText/FastText.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 import fasttext_pybind as fasttext
 import numpy as np
+import multiprocessing
 
 loss_name = fasttext.loss_name
 model_name = fasttext.model_name
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@ def train_supervised(
     wordNgrams=1,
     loss="softmax",
     bucket=2000000,
-    thread=12,
+    thread=multiprocessing.cpu_count() - 1,
     lrUpdateRate=100,
     t=1e-4,
     label="__label__",
@@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ def train_unsupervised(
     wordNgrams=1,
     loss="ns",
     bucket=2000000,
-    thread=12,
+    thread=multiprocessing.cpu_count() -1,
     lrUpdateRate=100,
     t=1e-4,
     label="__label__",