diff --git a/crates/coremem/src/lib.rs b/crates/coremem/src/lib.rs
index d764532..c313d9a 100644
--- a/crates/coremem/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/coremem/src/lib.rs
@@ -26,8 +26,19 @@ pub use sim::*;
 // B = mu_r*H + M
 // For a vacuum, B = H
 
+/// optional: calling this enables preferred logging defaults
 pub fn init_logging() {
     let conf = env_logger::Env::new().default_filter_or("INFO,wgpu_core=WARN");
     env_logger::Builder::from_env(conf).init();
     info!("logging initialized");
 }
+
+/// optional: calling this tunes the library to provide better instrumentation for debugging
+/// (at an extreme cost to perf)
+pub fn init_debug() {
+    rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
+        .num_threads(1)
+        .build_global()
+        .unwrap();
+    info!("running with debug rayon");
+}