[issue32986] multiprocessing, default assumption of Pool size unhelpful

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> So this seems like a reasonable heuristic approach to me.

You mean duplicating "nproc"'s logic in Python?  If someone wants to do the grunt work of implementing/testing it...

There's also the question of how that affects non-scientific workloads. People can use thread pools or process pools for other purposes, such as distributing (blocking) I/O.

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