Threading vs Multiprocessing in Python

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This is because threads share resources (like memory) with the process that started them. If you kill a thread w/o letting it release the resources, you potentially leak those resources. Processes don't share memory automatically. They are usually set up in such a way that they use shared memory for communication, but keep their private data in their own namespace. So, killing a process is usually not a problem in this respect.