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.

Python developers already have a leg up. Get started with the free-threaded build of Python 3.13 Python’s GIL-free, thread-parallel future is here! Here’s how to try it out for yourself.

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python.

Moore’s Law and Python’s flawed logic When language architects designed Python, they couldn’t conceive of a world where computers had more than one core. In the 1980s and 1990s, software engineers bet ...

Conveniently, Python scaling issues for multi-core and many-core processors as well as distributed cluster and cloud computing environments have been addressed in many packages. Under the cover ...