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Do some benchmarking to choose a sensible default number of threads
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Description
Right now I just made up a number. I don't think it's worth spending a huge amount of effort trying to tune this right now, but it's probably worth running a few toy microbenchmarks just to see if we've got a plausible order of magnitude.
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Research direction
Locate the current hard-coded default thread count, then identify the code path that uses it. Run a few toy microbenchmarks as requested and use their results to determine a plausible order of magnitude and select a sensible default.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100