Depends greatly on the use case. If you're finding all the gifs in a directory and converting them to pngs, it may be the case that CPU is hammered harder than

Depends greatly on the use case. If you're finding all the gifs in a directory and converting them to pngs, it may be the case that CPU is hammered harder than IO. There are surely counterexamples, too. It's a nice option to have when you need it.