Threading pool similar to the multiprocessing Pool?
missing-features, multithreading, python
Solution
I just found out that there actually is a thread-based Pool interface in the `multiprocessing` module, however it is hidden somewhat and not properly documented.
It can be imported via
from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
It is implemented using a dummy Process class wrapping a python thread. This thread-based Process class can be found in `multiprocessing.dummy` which is mentioned briefly in the docs. This dummy module supposedly provides the whole multiprocessing interface based on threads.
Problem
Is there a Pool class for worker threads, similar to the multiprocessing module's Pool class? I like for example the easy way to parallelize a map function ``` def long_running_func(p): c_func_no_gil(p) p = multiprocessing.Pool(4) xs = p.map(long_running_func, range(100)) ``` however I would like to do it without the overhead of creating new processes. I know about the GIL. However, in my usecase, the function will be an IO-bound C function for which the python wrapper will release the GIL before the actual function call. Do I have to write my own threading pool?