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4.3 - Benefits

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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is concurrency?

💡 Hint: Think about how a program can manage tasks without executing them at the same instant.

Question 2

Easy

What does the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) do?

💡 Hint: Consider memory safety and resource management on multi-core systems.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is concurrency in Python?

💡 Hint: Think of it as efficient task management.

Question 2

True or False: Parallelism requires multiple CPU cores.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider how computers handle heavy loads.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Design a system to download files concurrently, ensuring maximum efficiency. Implement it using threading and discuss potential pitfalls of using threading over multiprocessing.

💡 Hint: Think about how to properly manage resources and avoid deadlocks.

Question 2

Analyze the performance impact of GIL in a multi-threaded temperature data logging application versus a multi-processing solution.

💡 Hint: Consider how data logging could be CPU-bound.

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