[Python-Dev] multiprocessing vs. distributed processing (original) (raw)

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Fri Jan 16 06:46:59 CET 2009

I've noticed over the past few weeks lots of questions asked about multi-processing (including myself).

For those of you new to multi-processing, perhaps this thread may help you. Some things I want to start off with to point out are:

"multiprocessing will not always help you get things done faster."

"be aware of I/O bound applications vs. CPU bound"

"multiple CPUs (cores) can compute multiple concurrent expressions - not read 2 files concurrently"

"in some cases, you may be after distributed processing rather than multi or parallel processing"

cheers James

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