Parallelism in one line — Building Things on the Internet — Medium
https://medium.com/building-things-on-the-internet/40e9b2b36148
Parallel versions of the map function are provided by two libraries: multiprocessing, and also its little known, but equally fantastic step child: multiprocessing.dummy.
pigz - Parallel gzip
http://www.zlib.net/pigz
"A parallel implementation of gzip for modern
multi-processor, multi-core machines"
An easy way to run many tasks in parallel at Xaprb
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/01/an-easy-way-to-run-many-tasks-in-parallel
Amdahl's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
"Amdahl's law, named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved."
... for Some Value of "Magic": Stackless Python Continues to Amaze
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2006/11/stackless-python-continues-to-amaze.html
"Let me repeat that, just in case you missed it: resuming pickled tasklets across architectures is easy."