Concurrency & Parallelism

AdvancedConcurrency

Threads vs processes vs coroutines, CPU- vs I/O-bound work, locks, queues, pools, races and deadlocks.

18 lessons 5 labs 1 projects ~12h

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Threading vs Multiprocessing

Threads share memory and excel at I/O-bound work but the GIL blocks CPU parallelism; processes each get their own GIL for true multi-core speed — at the cost of pickling and IPC. `concurrent.futures` lets you switch between them in one word.

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Interview importance 5/5 · production importance 4/5.

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