Python has been held back by its inability to natively use multiple CPU cores. Now Pythonistas are aiming to find a solution For all of Python’s great and convenient features, one goal remains ...

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.

Multithreaded Python applications don’t perform true parallel computing. Instead, they just create the illusion of parallelism. To achieve this, Python schedules a thread to run for a few CPU cycles, ...