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Back in June, I read Robin Hanson’s book: Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth. I found it fascinating. Two months later, the book’s ideas still pop into my mind daily. Nothing …| geoff.greer.fm
In CPython, the global interpreter lock, or GIL, is a mutex that protects access to Python objects, preventing multiple threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. The GIL prevents race conditions and ensures thread safety. A nice explanation of how the Python GIL helps in these areas can be found here. In short, this mutex is necessary mainly because CPython's memory management is not thread-safe. | wiki.python.org