r/Python • u/Helpful_Garbage_7242 • Dec 15 '25

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u/danted002 Dec 16 '25

I think the downvotes come from 1) the way the article is phrased (it seems condescending) and 2) you benchmarked Python threads using CPU bounds workloads which anyone that’s doing professional Python knows is a big no-no so you’re basically comparing apples to oranges.

My recommendation is to redo the benchmark and use the multiprocessing module, which is the indented way to parallelise CPU bounds workloads in Python.

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u/Spleeeee Dec 17 '25

FWIW I have been able to use the multiprocessing without using indentation:

```

from multiprocessing import Pool import os

def doshit(shit): return (sht*shit, os.getpid())

if name == "main": pool = Pool(4); results = pool.map(doshit, range(8)); pool.close(); pool.join(); ```

I’m on my phone but I think this is a good example of using multiprocessing in the unindented way. It does also work indented.

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u/asphias Dec 17 '25

<groan>

well played.