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fiedziatoday at 5:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> If true parallelism becomes common, it might actually reduce the number of containers/services needed for some workloads

Not by much. The cases where you can replace processes with threads and save memory are rather limited.


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aoeusnth1today at 5:50 PM

Citation needed? Tall tasks are standard practice to improve utilization and reduce hotspots by reducing load variance across tasks.