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Four pbkdf2 calls submitted at once finish at roughly the same time, but submitting eight makes the last four finish roughly twice as late. What internal mechanism explains this?

const c = require('crypto'); const start = Date.now(); let done = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 8; i++) { c.pbkdf2('a', 'b', 1e5, 64, 'sha512', () => { if (++done === 4) console.log('4 done', Date.now() - start); if (done === 8) console.log('8 done', Date.now() - start); }); }