On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:43 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???>
wrote:

> each process in the pipeline will get its own processor core (or nowadays,
> thread).


They are the old-fashioned processes. Generally much heavier-weight than
threads, but it doesn't matter for this application. If there are enough
CPUs or CPU contexts (hyperthreads), each process in the pipe will get one.