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Python's multi-threading and the GIL

Date Mon 18 March 2019 Tags dask / #python / multiprocessing / threads

Got this in an email.

"Python's multi-threading module seems not efficient because of the global interpreter lock?"

Yep.

Is the trick is to use "Thread-Local Data"?

Nope.

It Gets Worse

Interestingly, there was no further ask. The questioner had decided on thread-local data because the questioner had decided to focus …

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