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Ignore the negativity train on Hacker News as of late. I thought it was a very well written and interesting article. I was once one of the very noobies that yo

Ignore the negativity train on Hacker News as of late. I thought it was a very well written and interesting article. I was once one of the very noobies that your article describes. In fact, I even made the same Stack Overflow post asking why threading made my program slow to a crawl. I did then (thanks to a friendly answer) learn about multiprocessing rather than threading, but I never actually got around to learning -- or even thinking about!-- what exactly the GIL is and why it makes threading terrible for CPU bound tasks. Point being, I enjoyed it.

Luyt 13y ago
"I never actually got around to learning -- or even thinking about!-- what exactly the GIL is" David Beazley does a good job on explaining the GIL. There are multiple videos of his GIL talks on YouTube. This one, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s He has a page about this at http://www.dabeaz.com/GIL/ http://www.dabeaz.com/GIL/