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
withstatement - Thread communication using a queue
- Evaluating the performance of multithread applications
- The criticality of multithreaded programming
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