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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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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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python
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performance
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Feature
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