multiprocess or threading in python?

Question

I have a python application that grabs a collection of data and for each piece of data in that collection it performs a task. The task takes some time to complete as there i

Answer 1

Using CPython's threading model will not give you any performance improvement, because the threads are not actually executed in parallel, due to the way garbage collection is handled. Multiprocess would allow parallel execution. Obviously in this case you have to have multiple cores available to farm out your parallel jobs to.

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