Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...

Every library or Python program ever written that might be impacted by multithreaded data access will have to be retested and potentially rewritten. Amid the transition from GIL to no-GIL Python ...

Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) was built with the assumption that all operations would occur on this single core. ... Architects for more modern programming languages such as Java and C# ...

The GIL has long been seen as an obstacle to better multithreaded performance in CPython (and thus Python generally). Many efforts have been made to remove it over the years, but at the cost of ...

Python 3.13 now introduces the so-called free-threaded mode, which works without a global interpreter lock. The mode is marked as experimental, and the description warns that bugs and ...