Why is ThreadPoolExecutor's default max_workers decided based on the number of CPUs?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5619...

Question links:
[concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor]: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/conc...
[ThreadPoolExecutor]: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/conc...
[ProcessPoolExecutor]: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/conc...

Accepted answer links:
[low-effort]: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit...
[low-discussion]: https://bugs.python.org/issue21527

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