The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Free-threaded Python (Interview)
Łukasz Langa
So this is where the reputation of not really scalable comes in. But ironically, the GIL also makes Python faster than it would be without it. The reason why is because reference counting is a major reason for the global interpreter lock's existence. But it's not the only reason you need a lock in your interpreter.
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