Ha. I work on a competitor and our story is similar. We're a little more aggressive with multi-threading but you have to understand these code-bases are massiv

Ha. I work on a competitor and our story is similar. We're a little more aggressive with multi-threading but you have to understand these code-bases are massive legacy things whose value comes from a ton of business logic accreted over 25 years. I assure you I've heard of multiple CPU cores (before this I did high-performance physics simulations across thousands of cores) but I still don't have the first idea how to get something to execute on a background thread in this codebase.