As per this file referred to in Chapter 6:

[https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/blob/master/Chapter6/WikipediaStats/parallel_counts.nim](https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/blob/master/Chapter6/WikipediaStats/parallel_counts.nim)

Isn't this kind of a race between how fast the disk can read the file, and how 
fast the CPU threads can process it?

eg, with a huge file, slow CPUs, fast IO, low RAM, the system can run out of 
ram because of too many separate threads being in the middle of the 
parseChunk() function, where each thread is hanging onto at least 1_000_000 
bytes of ram?

Or does something special happen (eg, "spawn" function starts blocking) when 
the # of spawned functions reaches MaxThreadPoolSize (256).

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