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Why can creating too many threads make an application slower?
Tests whether you connect it to context-switching overhead and cache thrashing once thread count exceeds available cores by a wide margin, plus the memory cost of each thread's stack -- more threads than the workload can parallelize just adds scheduling overhead.
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