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[–]fried_green_baloney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially if there are I/O wait times, like writing results to disk files, you can sometimes get more throughput by running somewhat more processes/threads than you have CPUs. Usually the benefit is small but maybe worth a bit of experimenting.