Python Concurrency

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Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) limits true parallelism for CPU-bound code in CPython. Multiprocessing bypasses the GIL using separate processes for CPU-bound work. Asyncio provides efficient cooperative multitasking for I/O-bound workloads.

Key Properties

• GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)
• Multiprocessing for CPU-bound
• O-bound

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