Python threads and the Global interpreter lock

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i started reading this in the hopes of getting some insight into why the gil is there, philosophies for working around it, or else why it's not really a problem, etc.

if there's anything like that in here, i'll never know. this article is way too long. it rehashes a bunch of stuff about threads that most programmers should already know. even after skimming for several pages' worth of material, i still didn't see anything worth reading.

i guess i should mention that i'm not a python programmer, but someday, i might be. so whoever this article was aimed at, it wasn't me.

It's a reprint of an article (as noted in the header) from Python magazine. If you want to know about the GIL, it's near the end. The article is aimed at disseminating a large amount of information about threading in general and specifically python's implementation.

I figured this was appropriate given previous discussions on threads/etc and concurrency.

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