"Seems like for IO focused software you'll have a lot of dead CPU time. If you have more threads than cores, you can take advantage of that." Yes, see here for

"Seems like for IO focused software you'll have a lot of dead CPU time. If you have more threads than cores, you can take advantage of that." Yes, see here for more discussion on this: https://github.com/ronomon/crypto-async#adjust-threadpool-size-and-control-concurrency https://github.com/ronomon/crypto-async#adjust-threadpool-si...