multiprocessing

With CPU-intensive Python applications, the usual solution is to use multiple processes, and let the OS manage them. Python has a multiprocessing module for this.

multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine.

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Last update: November 14, 2023