USEFUL DEFINITIONS TO UNDERSTAND REFERENCES

• Definition of Multiprocessing - taking advantage of cpu multiple cores, 2 process running concurrently like in different machines
• Blocking and non-blockin system call

REFERENCES

1. Difference between Multiprogramming, Multitasking, Multithreading and Multiprocessing
2. Difference between user level threads and Kernel Level threads
   • User level threads are handled by an applicaton library - can’t run concurrently, very lightweight in regards to memory, contex switch without high overhead If however blocking system call is called which blocks the all process, this does not work well
   • Kernel level threads are handled by the kernel (exactly like processes, but in a different table) can take advantage of multiprocessing, need more memory , context switch is expensive.
3. Comparison as table
4. Thread memory sharing
5. Process memory distribution

MULTITHREADING IN PYTHON

USEFUL DEFINITIONS TO UNDERSTAND REFERENCES

• Threading library does not allow multiprocessing, but Multiprocessing library does.
• Threading context switch ligther - good if you dont have process blocking calls.

REFERENCES*

1.Threading vs Multiprocessing 2.Same thing as in previous

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