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 ...

Moore’s Law and Python’s flawed logic When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had more than one core. In the 1980s and 1990s, software engineers bet ...

Python 3.13 introduces a JIT compiler that compiles the code into machine code at runtime to improve performance. The Christmas Day (December 25, 2023) pull request on GitHub is peppered with a ...