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 ### Default thread pool support
 
-`ThreadPool` is used as a **default** task queue, and the default thread count is 8, or `std::thread::hardware_concurrency()`. You can change it with `CPPHTTPLIB_THREAD_POOL_COUNT`.
+`ThreadPool` is used as the **default** task queue, with a default thread count of 8 or `std::thread::hardware_concurrency() - 1`, whichever is greater. You can change it with `CPPHTTPLIB_THREAD_POOL_COUNT`.
 
 If you want to set the thread count at runtime, there is no convenient way... But here is how.