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Stress CPU Threads with a Mock Compute in Python

Simulates CPU-intensive work across multiple threads to test how Python schedules parallel compute.

threading cpu-stress parallelism
Python 
import threading
import time


def stress_cpu(iterations: int):
    result = 0
    for i in range(iterations):
        result += i * i % 1000
    return result


def run_mock_stress(thread_count: int, iterations: int):
    threads = []
    for tid in range(thread_count):
        t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: str…
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