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How would you size thread pools for CPU-bound versus I/O-bound workloads?
Tests whether you know CPU-bound pools should be sized near the core count (more threads just add context-switch overhead), while I/O-bound pools can be sized much larger since threads spend most of their time blocked, not competing for CPU.
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