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		gpderetta on Feb 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiprocessing.shared_memory – Shared memory for ... To be extremely optimistic, performance per clock cycle has doubled. The average clock of server hardware hasn't increased significantly. The number of cores have increased ridiculously, but that doesn't really help python much.

pjmlp on Feb 28, 2019 [–]

It does when going old style multi-process.

Which is something that is starting to look interesting again, given the security issues of multi-threading.

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