adding thread performance study

Author: krsm

Multithreading/thread_performance.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Simple study related to Multiprocessing
+
+"""
+
+import time
+import random
+import threading
+
+parallel = random.choice(['True', 'False'])
+
+counter = 0
+max_for = 100000000
+
+lock = threading.Lock()
+
+def add_numbers():
+
+    global counter
+    for _ in range(0, max_for):
+        lock.acquire()
+        counter += 1
+        lock.release()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    start_time = time.time()
+
+    if parallel is True:
+
+        t1 = threading.Thread(target=add_numbers)
+        t2 = threading.Thread(target=add_numbers)
+
+        t1.start()
+        t2.start()
+
+        t1.join()
+        t2.join()
+
+    else:
+
+        add_numbers()
+        add_numbers()
+
+    end_time = time.time() - start_time
+
+    print(end_time, parallel)
+
+    print(counter)
+
+    # assert max_for == max_for*2