What is paragram?¶
Paragram is an erlang-style concurrency framework for python. This is also known as an actor-based concurrency model, as it consists of multiple independent actors sending messages to each other.
Paragram started as a fork of candygram adding true concurrency using threads and processes, but diverged enough to become its own library.
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Performance¶
Paragram is not (currently) performant for large numbers of processes. It does well enough with threads, but starting more than a handlful of processes will cause delays when spawning, because of the large number of inter-process objects. This will hopefully be fixed in the future, but you should be aware of it.
If you need performance, I suggest trying candygram, which features lightweight tasklets instead of threads or OS processes.