a version of Python that allows full concurrency, or multi-threading, by removing the Global Interpreter Lock. Whether you call it “free-threaded” or “no-GIL” Python, the result is the ...

Guided by this logic, Python inventor Guido van Rossum architected all of Python’s multithreading capabilities around the fatally flawed assumption that computers of the future would have only a ...

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel ...