Oct 28, 2025

The important observation is that despite having each channel on the same thread pool, logically they operate entirely independently, with the strand ensuring thread safety only internally to the channel. There are also chaser objects that manage cross-channel state computations, such as performance deviations and validation. These also operate on their own strands and on the network thread pool, but are generally very low cost (apart from the aforementioned script validation, which uses an independent pool). So given that these are already logically independent (concurrent) logical strands of execution within a single thread pool, it is trivial to factor them into independent thread pools - based on NIC selection.