Happy birthday, Rust! The latest release of the increasingly popular fast and safe programming language coincides with its ...

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 ...

However, the GIL causes performance problems for certain types of applications, because it only allows one thread to execute Python code at a time. Figure 2 illustrates the problem with the GIL in an ...