Plate 99
ProcessPool vs Sequential CPU: Localhost Lab
Hands-on ProcessPoolExecutor vs sequential CPU lab: real wall time and worker sweep on pure-Python sum-of-squares, measured on Linux localhost for SREs.
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Plate 99
Hands-on ProcessPoolExecutor vs sequential CPU lab: real wall time and worker sweep on pure-Python sum-of-squares, measured on Linux localhost for SREs.
Plate 32
Hands-on ThreadPoolExecutor vs sequential lab: real wall-time speedup for I/O sleep workloads plus GIL CPU contrast, measured on Linux localhost (lab).
Plate 25
Hands-on ProcessPool vs ThreadPool lab: pure-Python threads lose to processes, hashlib threads help, and sleep I/O favors threads.