Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

Understanding the difference between multithreading and multiprocessing

There are two different ways in which simultaneous requests can be executed within Python: multithreading and multiprocessing. Often, these two items are confused with each other, and when you read about them, you will see similar responses on blogs and newsgroups. If you are speaking about using multiple processors and processing cores, you are talking about multiprocessing. If you are staying within the same memory block but not using multiple cores or processes, then you are talking about multithreading. Multithreading, in turn, runs concurrent code but does not execute tasks in parallel due to the Python interpreter's design.

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