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Missing piece: worker process pools, run_in_worker_process
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Description
It'd be nice to have a clean way to dispatch CPU-bound work. Possibly based on multiprocessing.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the issue's proposed run_in_worker_process entry point and Python's multiprocessing documentation. Define the intended API, worker-pool behavior, and completion criteria with the maintainers before looking for implementation or tests; the issue does not name any files or existing test cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100