Advanced Python Programming

Multiprocessing

A common concept in computer science is multitasking. When multitasking, an operating system simply switches between different processes at high speed to give the appearance that these processes are being executed simultaneously, even though it is usually the case that only one process is executing on one single central processing unit (CPU) at any given time. In contrast, multiprocessing is the method of using more than one CPU to execute a task.

While there are a number of different uses of the term multiprocessing, in the context of concurrency and parallelism multiprocessing refers to the execution of multiple concurrent processes in an operating system, in which each process is executed on a separate CPU, as opposed to ...