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Depends on level of specialisation, but yes. The problem is the same, though: the only way to guarantee 100 % utilisation is to have a long queue of things waiting to be done so nobody runs out of work. But a long queue also means high latency.

In order to reduce latency, you have to have a short queue, which means people will run out of work sometimes and be idle.

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