file hashing became drastically slower in recent chrome versions;
* 748 MiB/s in 131.0.6778.86
* 747 MiB/s in 132.0.6834.160
* 485 MiB/s in 133.0.6943.60
* 319 MiB/s in 134.0.6998.36
the silver lining: it looks like chrome-bug 1352210 is improving
(crypto.subtle, the native hasher, now scales with multiple cores)
* 133.0.6943.60: speed peaked at 2 threads; 341 MiB/s, 485 MiB/s
* 134.0.6998.36: peak at 7; 193, 383, 383, 408, 421, 431, 438, 438
* 137.0.7151.41: peak at 8; 210, 382, 445, 513, 573, 573, 585, 598
MiB/s when hashing with 1, 2, ..., 7, 8 webworkers respectively
on a ryzen7-5800x with 2x16g 2133mhz ram
characteristics of versions between v134 and v137 are unknown
(cannot find old official builds to test), but v137 is a good
cutoff for minimizing risk of hitting chrome-bugs
meanwhile, hash-wasm scales linearly up to 8 cores;
0=328 1=377 2=738 3=947 4=1090 5=1190 6=1380 7=1530 8=1810
(0 = wasm on mainthread, no webworkers)
but it looks like chrome-bug 383568268 is making a return,
so keep the limit of max 4 threads if machine has more than
4 cores (and numCores-1 otherwise)
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