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		cogman10 on Dec 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (o... The rule of thumb also keeps you from doing a lot of task switching. It isn't free enqueue and dequeue tasks. It is better if you have a million things to do to have a smaller set of tasks. Especially if the runtime for those tasks are somewhat uniform.

mcronce on Dec 4, 2024 [–]

For sure. Context switching tasks is certainly a lot cheaper than context switching threads, but it isn't free.

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