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by hunterpayne 242 days ago
Wow, I seriously question the quality of any project where this is a consideration. I would also strongly recommend you hire some better devs and rewrite that project in another language with better concurrency features. Java (or anything on the JVM) would lead that list but plenty of languages would be suitable.

Also, sharing memory between processes is very very very slow compared to sharing memory between threads.
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yupyupyups 242 days ago
The assumption is that they never share memory.

Any time you have an arbitrary independent task that can be started and then stopped by the user, you will need processes in Python.

Java is a lot better at concurrency and has a vast library for concurrency primitives like atomic operations (CAS etc.)

Python's strengths lies in its strong ecosystem and ease of use. Many times that overshadows the benefits of Java's competent concurrency features.

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