(For context, I’m basically referring to Python 3.12 “multiprocessing.Pool Vs. concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor”…)

Today I read that multiple cores (parallelism) help in CPU bound operations. Meanwhile, multiple threads (concurrency) is due when the tasks are I/O bound.

Is this correct? Anyone cares to elaborate for me?

At least from a theorethical standpoint. Of course, many real work has a mix of both, and I’d better start with profiling where the bottlenecks really are.

If serves of anything having a concrete “algorithm”. Let’s say, I have a function that applies a map-reduce strategy reading data chunks from a file on disk, and I’m computing some averages from these data, and saving to a new file.

  • onlinepersonaEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Thank you. That’s good to know. In my OS architecture lectures, we were introduced to an OS with core bound threads. I can’t remember if it was a learning OS or something that really existed, hence my doubts.

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