In this version of the program, I don't create mylist until late in the game. However, I create an instance of multiprocessing.Queue very early on. That Queue instance is designed to be shared across ...

In short, the GIL prevents Python from taking full advantage of multiprocessor systems. For Python to be a first-class language for concurrent programming, many believe the GIL has to go. So far ...

Douglas Eadline posted a bit of an introspective piece via his HPC column at Linux Magazine. Put simply, he lays out what may become a growing chasm between effective multiprocessor programming ...

We will start with synchronization primitives, mutual exclusion, and consensus, and talk about different programming models such as multi-threading, locking, and transactional memory. ... The Art of ...