(Python 3 is used for the duration of the article.) The Global Interpreter Lock It’s impossible to talk about concurrent programming in Python without mentioning the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL.

Read chapter 12 from the book Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language by Mark Summerfield. This chapter is an excerpt from Programming in Python 3: A Complete ...

Multithreaded programming could be about to get easier for Java developers under a plan currently incubating in the OpenJDK community.

The just-released Python 3.2 beta shows the language being tweaked for parallel programming The next version of the Python programming language will offer greater support for writing multithreaded ...

The just-released Python 3.2 beta shows the language being tweaked for parallel programming The next version of the widely used Python programming language will offer greater support for writing ...