Optimal number of threads per core

Question

Let\'s say I have a 4-core CPU, and I want to run some process in the minimum amount of time. The process is ideally parallelizable, so I can run chunks of it on an infinite

Answer 1

The ideal is 1 thread per core, as long as none of the threads will block.

One case where this may not be true: there are other threads running on the core, in which case more threads may give your program a bigger slice of the execution time.