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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Parallel Programming Cookbook Master efficient parallel programming to build powerful applications using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289583
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giancarlo Zaccone Giancarlo Zaccone
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python 2. Thread-based Parallelism FREE CHAPTER 3. Process-based Parallelism 4. Asynchronous Programming 5. Distributed Python 6. GPU Programming with Python Index

Chapter 2. Thread-based Parallelism

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • How to use the Python threading module
  • How to define a thread
  • How to determine the current thread
  • How to use a thread in a subclass
  • Thread synchronization with Lock and RLock
  • Thread synchronization with semaphores
  • Thread synchronization with a condition
  • Thread synchronization with an event
  • How to use the with statement
  • Thread communication using a queue
  • Evaluating the performance of multithread applications
  • The criticality of multithreaded programming
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