What is the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python?



What is the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python?..

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The GIL is a mechanism that prevents multiple native threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. It can affect the performance of multi-threaded programs.

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