Jeffrey04<p><a href="https://kitfucoda.medium.com/concurrency-vs-parallelism-achieving-scalability-with-processpoolexecutor-c366bfcc6207" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kitfucoda.medium.com/concurren</span><span class="invisible">cy-vs-parallelism-achieving-scalability-with-processpoolexecutor-c366bfcc6207</span></a></p><p>Concurrency and parallelism are often confused in async programming discussions. Go's goroutines highlighted the difference: concurrency is doing many things at once, while parallelism is doing many things at the same time.</p><p>AsyncIO handles concurrency well for I/O, but CPU-bound tasks need parallelism. Python uses AsyncIO for concurrency, and ProcessPoolExecutor for parallelism, distributing work across CPU cores.</p><p>Process communication is harder than thread communication. AsyncIO's task cancellation differs from ProcessPoolExecutor's, requiring workarounds like event objects for reliable cancellation and shutdown.</p><p>Essentially, ProcessPoolExecutor enables parallelism for CPU-bound tasks, scaling them across multiple cores, while AsyncIO handles I/O concurrently.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/asyncio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asyncio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/concurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concurrency</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/parallelism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parallelism</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/multiprocessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multiprocessing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/opentowork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opentowork</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/getfedihired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>getfedihired</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fedihire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedihire</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/opentowork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opentowork</span></a></p>