Am I not understanding multithreading correctly?

There's a section in the manual that has this to say about optimizing projects for multi-core processing.

Make sure that your highest CPU using plugins are routed to independent Mixer Tracks without shared 'Send' Channels. Multi-core CPUs need computational tasks that can be run simultaneously and so split across cores. Each Mixer Track represents an 'opportunity' to create these independent, parallel, processing paths. Each unit in the audio chain from the instrument through to the Mixer track and the effects must be processed in sequence on the same core. If one mixer track is linked to another, then all the instruments and effects on both Mixer Tracks now have a dependency and can't be split across cores efficiently.

Maybe I'm not understanding the bit about "shared send channels". I get that if you have plugin A going to mixer channel 1 and plugin B going to mixer channel 2, A+1 can be processed on one core while B+2 gets processed on another core. If I then route channel 1 into channel 3, we now have A+1+3 on the same core because everything gets processed in sequence. However, if I simultaneously route channels 1 and 2 into channel 3, does that mean that channels 1 and 2 are no longer split across separate cores because they both feed into channel 3?

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