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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The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...

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 ...

Python has been held back by its inability to natively use multiple CPU cores. Now Pythonistas are aiming to find a solution For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains out of ...

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