download parallel (conan-io#4282)

Author: memsharded

reference/config_files/global_conf.rst

@@ -299,7 +299,6 @@ Those warnings are:
   - ``network``: Messages related to network issues, such as retries
 
 
-
 Environment deactivation functions
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
@@ -359,3 +358,13 @@ available in the current shell session. This behavior emulates the well known ``
     tools.env:deactivation_mode=function
 
 **Default value:** None.
+
+Parallel download
++++++++++++++++++
+
+By default the download and unzip of pre-compiled package binaries from remote servers will happen in parallel,
+defaulting to the number of cpu-cores. The configuration ``core.download:parallel=<int-number>`` can change this
+behavior. If ``core.download:parallel=0``, then the behavior will be to not use parallelism and do a sequential
+download and unzip of precompiled package binaries.
+This ``core.download:parallel`` configuration also affects the ``conan download`` command, but for that command
+the default at the moment is not to use parallelism, but sequential download.