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by davidktr 1066 days ago
And for this you cannot use Python's multiprocessing because ... ? Sure, moving data between processes is slow because of pickling [0]. However, I'm using parallel processing for the things you suggested, and for these it works great.

If I really had the use case and needed threads, I'd much rather use C++ bindings in a Python package than rebuilding the whole thing. Guess it depends on the scale we are talking about.

[0] https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-multiprocessing-pick...

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It’s handling all the things that can go wrong when communicating and coordinating across processes, across machines, or troubleshooting bottlenecks on running systems that Elixir (and Erlang) excels.