ECO-CMP-PY-019 — Excessive thread spawning¶

Category: Computation (CMP)
Family: Python (PY)
Layer: Code
Tier: 2
Severity: warning
Tags: python, concurrency
Legacy ID: ECO-PY-019

Summary¶

Creating many threads increases overhead and contention.

Thread creation and contention can reduce throughput and increase CPU waste.

{
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "notes": "Often misused for I/O that could be async.",
  "type": "cpu"
}

{
  "languages": [
    "python"
  ],
  "method": "hybrid"
}

{
  "guidance": "Use thread pools, async I/O, or bounded concurrency.",
  "tradeoffs": "Requires concurrency redesign."
}

{
  "system_layers": [
    "code"
  ]
}