I am experimenting with using threading, or forking, or whatever you want to call it, to speed things up that are slow, but where order of execution doesn't matter.

Beware of doing so, that is, for that reason. It may have a sense if your main program has other stuff to do, like responding to user input -but that's a whole another story-, or you actually have more CPUs (also in the form of hyperthreading or anything), or if those things are slow but not due to CPU-boundedness, i.e. if they comprise responding to network connections. Otherwise you won't see any performance gain from splitting you logic amongst threads or processes.

In reply to Re: using parallel processing to concatenate a string, where order of concatenation doesn't matter by blazar
in thread using parallel processing to concatenate a string, where order of concatenation doesn't matter by tphyahoo

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