Real Question (somewhat abbreviated): "My algorithm performs badly, do I need asyncio?"

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Sigh. No. Do you need a slap upside the head?

Here's how it plays out:

Q: "We figured that if we 'parallelize' it, then we can apply multiple cores, and it will run …

Let's talk about parallel processing, something I prefer to call concurrent processing. It shows up in many places. Most OS's have concurrent processes. Applications like Apache have concurrent threads within a process for handling web requests. Oracle not only handles concurrent queries from multiple users, but you can define a …

A taxonomy of pipeline alternatives is a big, hairy deal, involving lots of alternatives. While your basic API methods are relatively few in number, each language and platform introduces new options. Without some focus, it's challenging to produce a big, fluffy description of all potential alternatives.

However, the interesting thing …