diff --git a/benchmark.sh.ORIG b/benchmark.sh.VJR.FULL
index a5c3e4f..8c8f29a 100755
--- a/benchmark.sh.ORIG
+++ b/benchmark.sh.VJR.FULL
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# ▌ benchmark — a modern VPS benchmark
+# ▌ benchmark — a modern Unix benchmark
 # ▌
 # ▌ System info · CPU · Memory · Disk · Network — zero dependencies, one file.
 # ▌ Inspired by yabs.sh (Mason Rowe) and bench.sh (Teddysun).
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ banner() {
     else
         mark="$C_ACCENT$word"
     fi
-    local tagline="the modern VPS benchmark"
+    local tagline="the modern Unix benchmark"
     local ver="v$BENCHMARK_VERSION"
     local pad=$((TERM_WIDTH - 4 - ${#word} - 3 - ${#tagline} - ${#ver} - 2))
     ((pad < 1)) && pad=1
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ banner() {
     # context strip: what we're running on, at a glance
     local ctx="${R_OS:-$(uname -s)}"
     [[ -n "${R_CPU_CORES:-}" ]] && ctx+=" $G_SEP ${R_CPU_CORES} cores"
+    [[ -n "${R_CPU_THREADS:-}" ]] && ctx+=" $G_SEP ${R_CPU_THREADS} threads"
     [[ -n "${R_ARCH:-}" ]] && ctx+=" $G_SEP ${R_ARCH}"
     ctx+=" $G_SEP $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z')"
     printf '    %s%s%s\n\n' "$C_MUTE" "$ctx" "$RST"
@@ -578,6 +579,7 @@ $SKIP_GB || STEP_TOTAL=$((STEP_TOTAL + 1))
 
 R_CPU_MODEL="" R_CPU_CORES="" R_CPU_FREQ="" R_RAM="" R_DISK="" R_OS="" R_KERNEL=""
 R_VIRT="" R_ARCH="" R_AES=false R_UPTIME="" R_LOAD="" R_CPU_ISA="" R_RAM_MB=0
+R_CPU_THREADS=""
 
 # turn a space-separated CPU flag list into a readable ISA-extension string,
 # best first. Covers x86 (avx512/avx2/…) and ARM (sve/asimd/…).
@@ -620,7 +622,8 @@ collect_sysinfo() {
         R_CPU_MODEL=$(awk -F: '/model name/ {name=$2} END {print name}' /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^[ \t]*//')
         [[ -z "$R_CPU_MODEL" ]] && exists lscpu && \
             R_CPU_MODEL=$(lscpu | awk -F: '/Model name/ {print $2; exit}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//')
-        R_CPU_CORES=$(nproc 2>/dev/null || grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null)
+            R_CPU_CORES=$(lscpu -p=core,socket 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^#' | sort -u | wc -l)
+            R_CPU_THREADS=$(lscpu -p=cpu 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^#' | wc -l)
         R_CPU_FREQ=$(awk -F'[ :]+' '/cpu MHz/ {printf "%.0f", $4; exit}' /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null)
         if [[ -z "$R_CPU_FREQ" || "$R_CPU_FREQ" == "0" ]] && exists lscpu; then
             R_CPU_FREQ=$(lscpu 2>/dev/null | awk -F: '/CPU max MHz/ {gsub(/ /,"",$2); printf "%.0f", $2; exit}')
@@ -671,9 +674,11 @@ print_sysinfo() {
     local cpu_line="$C_TEXT$R_CPU_MODEL$RST"
     row "CPU" "$cpu_line"
     local core_line="$C_TEXT$R_CPU_CORES cores$RST"
+    local thread_line="$C_TEXT$R_CPU_THREADS threads$RST"
     [[ -n "$R_CPU_FREQ" ]] && core_line+=" $C_MUTE@ $R_CPU_FREQ$RST"
     if $R_AES; then core_line+="  $(ok) ${C_MUTE}AES-NI$RST"; else core_line+="  $(bad) ${C_MUTE}AES-NI$RST"; fi
     row "Cores" "$core_line"
+    row "Threads" "$thread_line"
     [[ -n "$R_CPU_ISA" ]] && row "Instructions" "$C_TEXT$R_CPU_ISA$RST"
     row "Memory" "$C_TEXT$R_RAM$RST"
     row "Disk" "$C_TEXT$R_DISK$RST"
@@ -877,7 +882,7 @@ probe_cpu_val() { # probe_cpu_val <secs> <threads> → CPUN if threads>1 else CP
 # openssl fallback: in-process sha256 (SHA-NI where present). Crypto throughput,
 # not general CPU — only used when no compiler is available.
 TASKSET=()
-command -v taskset >/dev/null 2>&1 && TASKSET=(taskset -c 0)
+command -v taskset >/dev/null 2>&1 && taskset -c 0 true >/dev/null 2>&1 && TASKSET=(taskset -c 0)
 
 openssl_sha_mbps() { # openssl_sha_mbps <seconds> <multi> <pin> → integer MB/s
     local secs=$1 multi=$2 pin=$3
@@ -895,7 +900,7 @@ openssl_sha_mbps() { # openssl_sha_mbps <seconds> <multi> <pin> → integer MB/s
 }
 
 bench_cpu() {
-    local cores=${R_CPU_CORES:-1}
+    local cores=${R_CPU_THREADS:-1}
     local secs=1 bursts=10
     $QUICK && bursts=5
 
@@ -1933,6 +1938,7 @@ emit_json() {
   "system": {
     "cpu": "$(json_escape "$R_CPU_MODEL")",
     "cores": ${R_CPU_CORES:-null},
+    "threads": ${R_CPU_THREADS:-null},
     "os": "$(json_escape "$R_OS")",
     "kernel": "$(json_escape "$R_KERNEL")",
     "arch": "$(json_escape "$R_ARCH")",