When and when not to multithread

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:27:43 +0000

At the end of my last post on Python multithreading, I said my example was not the best. Let me expand some more on this.

While testing code in the previous post, I noticed that certain code was slower when multiple threads were running. Also these threads are not tied to a CPU. If we were talking about a bigger applications in which we wanted to ensure multiple threads were on different CPUs, you are in fact looking for multiprocessing.

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When and when not to multithread