Indeed, multiprocessing.pool seems to be based on a non-public property _state which seems to have three possible states RUN CLOSE and TERMINATE. Not sure what is the difference between CLOSE and ...

Why you may need SafePool? If your system load is high, and memory can be low sometimes, when you start a multiprocessing pool, the OS could kills some of the pool sub-processes. This makes sense as ...

Multiprocessing enables the computer to utilize multiple cores of a CPU to run tasks/processes in parallel. This parallelization leads to significant speedup in tasks that involve a lot of computation ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

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