So now that we've taken a look at the life cycle of a thread, it's important to know how these threads actually work within your machines. Understanding things like the multithreading model and how Python threads map to system threads is important if you are to make the right decisions when designing your high-performance software.
How does the operating system handle threads
Creating processes versus threads
A process, as we've seen, is a more heavyweight version of a simple thread in the sense that we can do things like spin up multiple threads within a process. They can perform more CPU-bound tasks better than a standard thread would due to the fact that they each feature their own separate GIL instance.
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