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  • The GIL Is Not a Lock on Your CPU

    Eight threads of pure-Python arithmetic run at 0.98x the speed of one. The same eight threads doing IO run at 7.90x. The GIL is a scheduler, and it has a dial.

Python, its runtimes, frameworks, and the systems beneath them — read from source, measured, not assumed.

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