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Decision table with Python threads
Problem Pattern
Background notification Fire-and-forget + daemon
Delayed action threading.Timer
Long-lived worker Subclass Thread
I/O fan-out ThreadPoolExecutor
Pipelines Threads + Queue
Best-effort work Daemon threads
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