Python Concurrency Primitives:

Some of the reference can be found on the Book starting from page number: 307 on concurrency.

Section1:

This section covers the very basics of the threading, multiprocessing, memory and program architecture.

• 1. Threads And MultiThreading

  • Intro To Threads
  • Multiple Threads
  • Multithreading Advantages and Disadvantages

• 2. Processes and Event Driven Programming

  • Intro To Processes
  • Properties of Process
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiprocessing
  • Illustration Of Event Driven Program

• 3. Threads Vs Sequential Execution: Example

  • Sequentual and Threaded implementation for image downloader

• 4. Improving Computation with Multiprocessing: Comparision and Example with Sequential Approach

  • Sequential and Multiprocessing approach for prime factorization

• 5. Concurrency And Parallelism, Bottlenecks

  • Concurrency
  • Properties of Concurrent System
  • IO Bottlenecks

• 6. Parallelism

  • Parallelism
  • Concurrency Vs Parallelism
  • CPu Bound Bottlenecks

• 7. Memory Architecture

  • Unified Memory Access
  • Non Unified Memory Access

• 8. Threading in Python

  • 8.1. Intro To Thread in Python

    • Python threading module constructor params.
    • Thread States
    • Thread State Transition, Example with Code

  • 8.2. Starting A Thread

    • Class Based Initialization Of Thread
    • Process Forking, Example
    • Daemon Thread, Usage, Example

  • 8.3. Handling Threads in Python

    • Listing active threads objects: threading.enumerate()
    • Get current thread: threading.current_thread()
    • Main Thread: Program Thread: threading.main_thread()
    • Thread naming: threading.current_thread().name, construct thread name initialization.

• 9. Synchronization Primitives

  • 9.1. Comparision Between Different Primitives

    • Tabular Comparision: Lock, RLock, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore
    • Semaphore Vs BoundedSemaphore

  • 9.2. Deadlock and Race Condition

  • 9.2. Synchronization Between Threads

    • Dining philosopher problem

  • 9.3. Shared Resource And Data Race

    • threading.Lock
    • threading.RLock
    • Lock vs RLock

  • 9.4. Conditions

    • Example Illustration with pseudocode in C.
    • Key Concepts For Pythonic Implementation
    • Condition class method.
    • Example Implementation with python.

  • 9.5. Semaphores

  • 9.6. BoundedSemaphore