Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting ...

The GIL is controversial because it only allows one thread at a time to access the Python interpreter. This means that it’s often not possible for threads to take advantage of multi-core systems.

The GIL mechanism performs timeslicing and scheduling of threads. Here’s how it works: Each thread has exclusive access to the GIL for a bit of time, does some work, and releases it.

Taking this rice on a chessboard scenario to its logical, exponential conclusion achieves effectively infinite CPU speeds in a relatively short period of time. Python multithreading Guided by this ...