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.

Python lets you parallelize workloads using threads, subprocesses, or both. Here's what you need to know about Python's thread and process pools and Python threads after Python 3.13.

Well, Python provides threading. Many people think of Python's threads as fatally flawed, because only one thread actually can execute at a time, thanks to the GIL (global interpreter lock). This is ...

Moore’s Law and Python’s flawed logic When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had more than one core. In the 1980s and 1990s, software engineers bet ...

The global interpreter lock is both a key component of the Python runtime and a major obstacle to multithreading. These are the plans to get around it or get rid of it.