What are the differences between the threading and multiprocessing modules?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1811...

Accepted answer links:
[What Giulio Franco says]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18114475
[concurrent.futures]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/concurr...
[Programming guidelines]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/multipr...
[fork]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multip...

Answer 3 links:
[What is the global interpreter lock (GIL) in CPython?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1294...
[8 hyperthread]: https://superuser.com/questions/133082/w...
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/2x04m.png
[Plot data]: https://gist.github.com/cirosantilli/46c...
[What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5564...
[GitHub upstream + plotting code on same directory]: https://github.com/cirosantilli/python-c...
https://rohanvarma.me/GIL/
[target=]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/thread...

Answer 4 links:
[this link]: http://www.quantstart.com/articles/Paral...

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