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Can you please expand a bit on "Python for multithreaded things"? My understanding was that Python interpreter has a GIL, which limits the concurrency and perfo

• delluminatus 13y ago
  Python has a standard library called multiprocessing [1] that uses multiple processes (surprise!) to get around the GIL. [1]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html
• Mithaldu 13y ago
  > My understanding was that Python interpreter has a GIL, which limits the concurrency and performance. Python is in that respect essentially the same as Perl with Coro built-in. ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Coro https://metacpan.org/pod/Coro )