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Difference between Threading & Multiprocessing

rNLKJA edited this page Mar 18, 2023 · 1 revision
Concept Multiprocessing Multithreading
Running multiple tasks concurrently Running multiple processes concurrently Running multiple threads within a single process
Memory Space Each process has its own memory space All threads share the same memory space
Parallelism True parallelism, since each process can run on a CPU core Not true parallelism, since all threads share the same CPU
Communication Inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms Shared memory and synchronization mechanisms (e.g., locks)