Great thanks. If I understand it correctly the GIL is kind of an automatic mutex implementation. Is it correct?
Exactly, it's a giant mutex that serialises access to non thread safe resources.
And in Python - everything except IO is considered non-thread-safe.
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Great thanks. If I understand it correctly the GIL is kind of an automatic mutex implementation. Is it correct?
Exactly, it's a giant mutex that serialises access to non thread safe resources.
And in Python - everything except IO is considered non-thread-safe.