Parallel(?) programming with python

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Thanks again for the info.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 9:31 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:

> On 2022-08-10 14:19:37 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:33:04 +0200, "Dieter Maurer" <dieter at handshake.de
> >
> > declaimed the following:
> > >Schachner, Joseph (US) wrote at 2022-8-9 17:04 +0000:
> > >>Why would this application *require* parallel programming?   This
> > >>could be done in one, single thread program.   Call time to get time
> > >>and save it as start_time.   Keep a count of the number of 6 hour
> > >>intervals, initialize it to 0.
> [...]
> >       Though if I read this correctly, a long running action /will/
> >       delay others -- which could mean the (FFT) process could block
> >       collecting new 1-second readings while it is active.
>
> Certainly, but does it matter? Data is received from some network
> connection and network connections often involve quite a bit of
> buffering. If the consumer is blocked for 3 or 4 or maybe even 20
> seconds, the producer might not even notice. (This of course depends
> very much on the details which we know nothing about.)
>
>         hp
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