It is pretty easy to build a round robin load scheduler that queries for x amount of cores on a system, spawns a thread for x cores and then schedules request to the least burdened core. This reduces the amount of threads the server uses while still taking advantage of evented co-routine based processes. (this stuff is not new, Node just kicked off interest again due to its growing popularity). If evented servers catch on, I think you will eventually see this as a hybrid solution. But yes you will certainly need threads or different processes, to take advantage of multi-core systems, it just a question of whether or not you need a thread per request. There are also a lot of security implication that are getting glossed over in the talks about evented servers.