プログラミング言語「Python」の成長に伴い、往年の課題である「GIL」（Global Interpreter Lock）の制約が顕在化してきた。GILはCPython（Pythonの標準実装）が持つ仕組みで、複数のスレッドが同時にPythonプログラムを実行することを妨げる。これはマルチコアCPUの ...

「Python」におけるマルチコアCPUの利用を妨げているのが「GIL」だ。GIL廃止の提案が承認されたことで積年の課題が解決する見込みが出てきた。一方、「混乱が起きる可能性がある」と指摘する有識者もいる。 プログラミング言語「Python」の問題の一つは ...

A major criticism of the Python programming language is that it can't thread across cores. The reason is because of the CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The inability to take advantage of more ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had ...

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team. One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to ...