GIL
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What is GIL?
GIL is a mechanism that allows only one thread to execute Python code at a time. This limitation is related to memory management in CPython and can reduce the efficiency of multithreaded applications on multi-core systems.
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Is this GIL tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 63 of 85 in the free Python roadmap, in stage 18, Concurrency. If you are new to Python, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.