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Practice Questions
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What is concurrency?
💡 Hint: Think about how a program can manage tasks without executing them at the same instant.
What does the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) do?
💡 Hint: Consider memory safety and resource management on multi-core systems.
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What is concurrency in Python?
💡 Hint: Think of it as efficient task management.
True or False: Parallelism requires multiple CPU cores.
💡 Hint: Consider how computers handle heavy loads.
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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.
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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Reference links
Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.
- Concurrency: A Simple Introduction
- Understanding Python's GIL
- Threading in Python: A Comprehensive Guide
- Multiprocessing in Python: A Beginner's Guide
- Python Concurrency with Asyncio
- Working with Thread Pools in Python
- Comparing Multiprocessing and Threading in Python
- Threading vs. Multiprocessing in Python: When to Use What?