Python
Beyond the GIL: FastIter Brings Rust-Like Parallelism to Python
For years, Python developers have wrestled with the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), a notorious mechanism that restricts the Python interpreter to executing only one thread at a time, even on multi-core processors. While often misunderstood and sometimes overstated, the GIL has been a significant bottleneck for CPU-bound parallel tasks, pushing