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diff --git a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst index ffc29d7..f2491dd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst +++ b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst @@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ And:: .. versionchanged:: 3.7 Added the *initializer* and *initargs* arguments. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + Default value of *max_workers* is changed to ``min(32, os.cpu_count() + 4)``. + This default value preserves at least 5 workers for I/O bound tasks. + It utilizes at most 32 CPU cores for CPU bound tasks which release the GIL. + And it avoids using very large resources implicitly on many-core machines. + + ThreadPoolExecutor now reuses idle worker threads before starting + *max_workers* worker threads too. + .. _threadpoolexecutor-example: |