154: Python Again with Jason C. McDonald
Programming Throwdown
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Python's Global Interpreter Lock
The gi i'll definitely get the bad rap unfairly so i need to touch on the history of the attempts to remove it there have been multiple attempts now as of right now it is now possible to compile python without the gi l they do have that but you have to compile it yourself. concurrency and parallelism are terms that we use interchangeably and we should not be using the interchangeably because they're not even a mobile the same thing concurrency means that while i'm waiting on one thing i do something else parallelism means i'm doing two things at onceNow let's talk about multiprocessing which allows you spin up multiple Python processes to handle IO blocking.
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