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0 pointsmorbia3y ago0 comments

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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zzzeek3y 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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0 pointsmorbia3y ago0 comments

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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zzzeek3y ago

Right, if your cpu tasks are running in native extensions, then threading will actually allow parallelism, whereas asyncio will not.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse