Explain multithreading vs multiprocessing
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This question evaluates understanding of concurrency and parallelism, specifically multithreading versus multiprocessing, their interaction with multi-core CPUs, and recognition of common concurrency pitfalls such as race conditions, deadlocks, and overhead.
Anthropic
Feb 11, 2026, 12:00 AM
Machine Learning Engineer
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Software Engineering Fundamentals
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In the context of implementing a crawler, answer the following:
- What is the difference between multithreading and multiprocessing ?
- How do these relate to running on a multi-core CPU ?
- For a network crawler, when would you prefer threads vs processes?
- What are common pitfalls (e.g., race conditions, deadlocks, overhead), and how do you mitigate them?
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