Learn how to build an event-driven socket server in Python using asyncio. This guide covers all the essential concepts, including handling multiple client connections efficiently with asynchronous programming.
Understanding Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) and Its Impact on Concurrency
The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python restricts multi-threaded concurrency by allowing only one thread to execute at a time, affecting CPU-bound tasks but less so for I/O-bound operations. Several workarounds exist to bypass its limitations.