Practice of setting parallelism as the default behaviour
Have fun. If you use multiple threads you need to make sure that the overhead doesn’t outweigh the savings. The number of processors to use depends on the number of available processors, their properties (hyperthreading, performance vs. power saving), and the usage of the machine including the OS. And making one task fast may have negative side effects on the machine as a whole. Summary: It’s difficult.
Set your priorities: First make it work. Second make it maintainable. Third if required measure to find performance problems and fix them by using code that is not stupid (in the last ten years 99% of my performance problems were caused by stupid code and fixed by using code that isn’t stupid), then by using good code, then by using optimised vector code. Using multiple threads should be your very last resort.