subsample: Add helper function for setting --nthreads

[victorlin]

This will be useful in Snakemake workflows to prevent over/under-allocating threads.

Downstream PRs

• Set threads for augur subsample docs.nextstrain.org#267
• Set threads for augur subsample measles#109

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[victorlin]

@jameshadfield do you think this would still be feasible with the augur proximity integration in #1962?

[jameshadfield]

Can we chat about this tomorrow?

I haven't yet implemented the --nthreads stuff yet, so proximity calculations just run with 1 thread. That's not good - the function is designed to parallalize really well, and without parallalization is unnecessarily slow.

[victorlin]

Sure!