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by ronreiter 445 days ago
Come on. This is a "mongo web scale" type of article.

CPU bound applications MUST use multithreading to be able to utilize multiple cores. In many cases, the framework knows how to give an API to the developer which masks the need for him to deal with setting up a worker thread pool, such as with web applications frameworks - but eventually you need one.

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