diff --git a/halo2_proofs/src/poly.rs b/halo2_proofs/src/poly.rs
index 753b65eb8..73031406f 100644
--- a/halo2_proofs/src/poly.rs
+++ b/halo2_proofs/src/poly.rs
@@ -169,22 +169,39 @@ impl<F: SerdePrimeField, B> Polynomial<F, B> {
         let poly_len = u32::from_be_bytes(poly_len) as usize;
 
         let repr_len = F::default().to_repr().as_ref().len();
+        let total_len = poly_len * repr_len;
 
-        let mut new_vals = vec![0u8; poly_len * repr_len];
+        let mut new_vals = vec![0u8; total_len];
         reader.read_exact(&mut new_vals)?;
 
+        let default_parallelism_approx = match std::thread::available_parallelism() {
+            Ok(parallelism) => usize::from(parallelism),
+            _ => 1,
+        };
+
+        log::debug!(
+            "[parallel-poly-read] default_parallelism_approx = {}",
+            default_parallelism_approx
+        );
+
+        let num_of_reps_per_chunk = std::cmp::max(1, poly_len / default_parallelism_approx);
+        let chunk_size = num_of_reps_per_chunk * repr_len;
+
         // parallel read
-        new_vals
-            .par_chunks_mut(repr_len)
-            .map(|chunk| {
-                let mut chunk = io::Cursor::new(chunk);
-                F::read(&mut chunk, format)
-            })
-            .collect::<io::Result<Vec<_>>>()
-            .map(|values| Self {
-                values,
-                _marker: PhantomData,
-            })
+        Ok(Self {
+            values: new_vals
+                .par_chunks(chunk_size)
+                .map(|mut chunk| {
+                    let mut felts = Vec::with_capacity(num_of_reps_per_chunk);
+                    while !chunk.is_empty() {
+                        felts.push(F::read(&mut chunk, format).unwrap());
+                    }
+                    felts
+                })
+                .flatten()
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+            _marker: PhantomData,
+        })
     }
 
     /// Reads polynomial from buffer using `SerdePrimeField::read`.