19. Multiprocessing & ProcessPoolExecutor for CPU-Intensive Workloads • Python 0-to-Hero Mastery (Big Tech SDE & ML Standard) • Rishabh Ki Kaksha

Python 0-to-Hero Mastery (Big Tech SDE & ML Standard) › 19. Multiprocessing & ProcessPoolExecutor for CPU-Intensive Workloads

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Module 1: Python Foundations & Virtual Machine Architecture

01. What is Python? History, CPython Architecture & PVM 02. Memory Management, Reference Counting & The GIL 03. Datatypes Deep Dive: Mutable vs Immutable & Integer Interning Cache 04. Dynamic Typing, Duck Typing & Python 3.12 Strict Type Hinting

Module 2: Flow Control, Collections & Functional Mastery

05. Variables, Scope & The LEGB Rule (Local, Enclosing, Global, Built-in) 06. Comprehensions & The Walrus Operator (:=) for High Performance 07. First-Class Functions, *args, **kwargs & Functional Combinators 08. Advanced Closures, Function Decorators & @functools.wraps

Module 3: Generators, Iterators & Memory-Safe Stream Processing

09. The Iterator Protocol (__iter__, __next__) & Generator Functions 10. Generator Pipelines & Infinite Stream Processing with itertools 11. Context Managers: The "with" Statement & contextlib.contextmanager

Module 4: Object-Oriented Python, Dunder Magic & Metaprogramming

15. Python Descriptors (__get__, __set__) & @property Deep Dive 16. Metaclasses: How Classes are Created (__new__ vs __init__) 12. Classes, Instances, Class Attributes & @classmethod vs @staticmethod 13. Dunder / Magic Methods Masterclass (__repr__, __call__, __getitem__) 14. Multiple Inheritance, MRO & C3 Linearization Algorithm (super())

Module 5: Concurrency, Multithreading & Asynchronous Programming

17. Concurrency Overview: CPU-Bound vs I/O-Bound Bottlenecks 18. Multithreading & ThreadPoolExecutor for High-Throughput I/O 19. Multiprocessing & ProcessPoolExecutor for CPU-Intensive Workloads 20. asyncio Event Loop Masterclass: Coroutines, Tasks & asyncio.gather

Module 6: Production Engineering, Testing & Performance Profiling

21. File I/O, Serialization (JSON, Pickle) & Pathlib Architecture 22. Robust Exception Hierarchies (try/except/else/finally) 23. Performance & Memory Profiling (cProfile, timeit & tracemalloc) 24. Production Package Architecture: pyproject.toml & Virtual Envs

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# 19. Multiprocessing & ProcessPoolExecutor for CPU-Intensive Workloads

> Python 0-to-Hero Notes by Rishabh - Topic 19

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### 1. True Multi-Core Parallelism (Bypassing GIL) ⚡

```python
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
import os
import math

def compute_heavy_hash(n: int) -> int:
    return sum(math.factorial(i % 10) for i in range(n))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    numbers = [5000000] * 8
    # Automatically uses all available CPU cores:
    with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=os.cpu_count()) as executor:
        results = list(executor.map(compute_heavy_hash, numbers))
    print(f"🚀 Completed on {os.cpu_count()} CPU cores!")
```

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### 2. Shared Memory Across Processes (`multiprocessing.shared_memory`)

Pickle serialization bypass karke direct RAM block share karna:
```python
from multiprocessing import shared_memory
import numpy as np

# Create 100MB shared NumPy array:
shm = shared_memory.SharedMemory(create=True, size=100_000_000)
arr = np.ndarray((10000, 10000), dtype=np.uint8, buffer=shm.buf)
```

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### 3. Interview Ke 3 Sawal Is Topic Se

1. **`if __name__ == '__main__':` multiprocessing me mandatory kyu hai?** -> Windows/macOS par spawn process method main module ko re-import karta hai; if guard na hone par infinite recursive process fork explosion ho jata hai.
2. **`fork` vs `spawn` process start methods me kya security tradeoff hai?** -> `fork` copy-on-write RAM share karta hai par multi-threaded apps me deadlocks create karta hai (Deprecated on macOS); `spawn` fresh clean Python interpreter boot karta hai (Safer).
3. **Process Queues (`multiprocessing.Queue`) threads queues se slow kyu hote hain?** -> Kyunki IPC me data objects ko pickle serialize aur deserialize karna padta hai.

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**Next Topic:** 20. asyncio Event Loop Masterclass: Coroutines, Tasks & asyncio.gather

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`ProcessPoolExecutor` ka use karke heavy mathematical factorials parallel calculate karein.

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