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This seems all a bit misleading to beginners, if you have numerical cpu-bound work in Python what you should be doing is vectorize it, not parallelize.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/vectorized-operations-in-numpy...



The point is that the use-case here is one where there is far more IO-bound work than CPU-bound.




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