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What is the Python GIL?

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Mike Driscoll
Jul 05, 2023
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A lot of people complain that Python is slow. But is it really? In my own experience, Python has almost always been “fast enough”.

However, there is that niggling issue of the Global Interpreter Lock or GIL.

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