So far, attempts to remove the GIL have failed. But a new wave of efforts is mounting to make the GIL a thing of the past, and make Python even more fully equipped to meet programming requirements ...

Try running this program with Python 3.12 or Python 3.13 (the GIL version). On my AMD Ryzen 3600 six-core machine, it completes in about two seconds.

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 Global Interpreter Lock. It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL.

Python 3.13: Better interactive shell and finally multithreading without GIL The new Python release features an interactive command line and allows the global interpreter lock to be deactivated.

However, there is a downside to these threads—namely the global interpreter lock (GIL), which ensures that only one thread runs at a time. Because a thread cedes the GIL whenever it uses I/O, this ...