If you are a software engineer and you need true multithreading capabilities in your Python programs, you could write your threaded apps in Java, and then just have the Python code invoke the Java ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains out of reach: Python apps running on the CPython reference interpreter and using multiple CPU cores in parallel. This has long ...

Python 3.13 introduced a special ‘free-threading’ or ‘no-GIL’ build of the interpreter to allow full parallelism with Python threads, but it’s still considered an experimental feature.