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by chillitom 98 days ago
Our experience on memory usage, in comparison, has been generally positive.

Previously we had to use ProcessPoolExecutor which meant maintaining multiple copies of the runtime and shared data in memory and paying high IPC costs, being able to switch to ThreadPoolExecutor was hugely beneficially in terms of speed and memory.

It almost feels like programming in a modern (circa 1996) environment like Java.