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 ...
Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had ...
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 ...