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 processing ...

这周，Python 3.14 正式发布，把悬念了多年的“去 GIL（全局解释器锁）”写进官方发行版。 此次更新并非只是一项开关，而是一整套能力同步上线：自由线程支持、并发解释器、改进的调试器支持，以及一个可选的新解释器路径，官方预估在默认单线程构建不变 ...

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A major criticism of the Python programming language is that it can't thread across cores. The reason is because of the CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The inability to take advantage of more ...

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team. One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to ...