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AI-generatedWorker thread contention in high-concurrency Ballerina runtimes
Ballerina utilizes a worker-based concurrency model to distribute computation across CPU cores, preventing long-running tasks from blocking the event loop. While network I/O is handled asynchronously, the runtime scheduler maps these workers to underlying OS threads to maintain throughput for cloud-native services. In scenarios where a high volume of concurr