Multiprocessing takes higher execution time

[Steve Holden]

Sibtey Mehdi wrote:
> Hi,
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> I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files.
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> For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) I create
> a process,
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> Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start()
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> It takes 61 seconds execution time.
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> When I do the same comparison without implementing multiprocessing, it
> takes 52 seconds execution time.
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> The parallel processing time should be lesser.
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> I am not able to get advantage of multiprocessing here.
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> Any suggestions can be very helpful.
> 
My first suggestion would be: show us some code. We aren't psychic, you
know.

regards
 Steve
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