How to Use Multi-thread & Multi-process in Python
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This document discusses multi-threading and multi-processing in Python. It explains that the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python prevents true concurrency between threads by serializing threads. For I/O-bound tasks, multi-threading can improve performance by allowing other threads to run while one thread is blocked on I/O. However, for CPU-bound tasks, multi-threading may not help or even hurt performance due to the GIL. It recommends using the multiprocessing module or ctypes for CPU-bound parallelism instead of threads. It also covers related topics like joining processes, file descriptors, and improving multi-threaded performance.
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- 5. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn What is GIL？ In C-python, the global interpreter lock, or GIL, is a mutex that prevents multiple native threads from executing Python byte-codes at once. This lock is necessary mainly because C-Python’s memory management is not thread-safe.(However, since the GIL exists, other features have grown to depend on the guarantees that it enforces.) GIL will serialize threads and stop the concurrence of threads.
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- 8. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn The Good News… I/O Intensive：
- 9. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn IO Intensive Running Sequence
- 10. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn Unfortunately… CPU Intensive Task: Multi-thread’s productivity even worse than single thread
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- 12. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn Second: multiprocessing Extra：multiprocessing.dummy How to deal with it?
- 13. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn Been there, done that… Join()
- 14. 北京迅达云成科技有限公司 www.speedycloud.cn file discripter In Linux, all operations on all devices and/or files are done via file descriptor. Been there, done that…
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