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Some C extensions run even when they don't have the lock. Also, the OS gets to run. If you have a lot of parallel computation, Python may not be a great choic
by anamax 5y ago
Some C extensions run even when they don't have the lock. Also, the OS gets to run.
If you have a lot of parallel computation, Python may not be a great choice. However, if you're managing a lot of IO with not much computation, Python is perfectly reasonable.