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morbia
3y ago
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The GIL gets even more complicated than that because it can also be released during CPU bound tasks that don't interact with python objects (e.g. Array operations in numpy)
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zzzeek
3y ago
Right, if your cpu tasks are running in native extensions, then threading will actually allow parallelism, whereas asyncio will not.
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