CPython 3.13 introduces an experimental "free-threaded" build of CPython that does not rely on the global interpreter lock (often referred to as the GIL) for thread safety. As of version 0.23, PyO3 ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

In this lab you will use the Python threading module to create producer and consumer threads as well as create mutex locks and semaphores to solve the Producer Consumer Buffer problem. You can find ...