• lime!@feddit.nu
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    2 months ago

    python has way too many ways to do that. asyncio, future, thread, multiprocessing

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      2 months ago

      Of the ways you listed the only one that will actually take advantage of a multi core CPU is multiprocessing

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        2 months ago

        yup, that’s true. most meaningful tasks are io-bound so “parallel” basically qualifies as “whatever allows multiple threads of execution to keep going”. if you’re doing numbercrunching in pythen without a proper library like pandas, that can parallelize your calculations, you’re doing it wrong.

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          I’ve used multiprocessing to squeeze more performance out of numpy and scipy. But yeah, resorting to multiprocessing is a sign that you should be dropping into something like Rust or a C variant.