> Why would you need hundreds of worker threads? Shrug why not? You get a different (easier?) programming model where you can use blocking IO rather than an e

> Why would you need hundreds of worker threads? Shrug why not? You get a different (easier?) programming model where you can use blocking IO rather than an event loop. > on the order of 2x-8x, not 100x Yeah, but that 2x might be the difference between one virtual machine flavor and the next price up.