numThreads -- the number of threads in the path tracker

Description

Tracking many solution paths is a pleasingly parallel computation. A multithreaded path tracker has a number of threads working on a queue of path tracking jobs. Every path tracking job can be computed without communication overhead. For sufficiently large problems, the speedup can as large as the number of threads.

Functions with optional argument named numThreads :

mixedVolume(...,numThreads=>...) -- option to set the number of threads when solving a start system
solveSystem(...,numThreads=>...) -- option to set the number of threads
trackPaths(...,numThreads=>...) -- Option to define the number of threads in the path tracker.

For the programmer

The object numThreads is a symbol.