I'm surprised there has been no discussion around NT's IO Completion Ports on this topic. IOCPs have this magic where the scheduler makes sure the number of thr

I'm surprised there has been no discussion around NT's IO Completion Ports on this topic. IOCPs have this magic where the scheduler makes sure the number of threads running from a worker pool are the optimum for the number of cores on the system. It lends itself well to writing hi-perf networking apps where you're waiting on a bunch of objects using MsgWaitForMultiple or some equivalent.