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I used to love #Python, but dealing with the honestly kind of scary #multiprocessing library was a reminder of the #GIL #threading situation really hurts working with #parallelism. 😰🫠

I've started learning #Kotlin after honestly really enjoying the threading library it provides. It's so's easy to work with when you understand it! 😀 (I would prefer to stay away from some of the #Java conventions after working with them for so long. 👍) #JVM #programming

Neil E. Hodges

2024-09-24 14:40:13


Had quite the time working on a personal project recently. It changed my life forever.
  • Learned the hard way that the (default on most POSIX) fork context is bad news.
  • Wrote a Unix domain datagram based log infrastructure.
  • Wrote an algorithm that operates kind of like concurrent.futures.as_completed(), except it has a priority queue and doesn't eagerly load the list of futures.
  • Discovered that it's possible to overload concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor with futures, preventing any actual background processing after a point.
  • Got TONS of practice optimizing stuff for large datasets.
  • Learned that taking breaks is important for reasons than most people are aware of.
  • My life was permanently altered by this project. I basically nerd-sniped myself.

#Python #programming


#java #python #kotlin #threading #gil #jvm #parallelism #multiprocessing

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