Question #212

What does GIL stand for?

In CPython, the global interpreter lock, or GIL, is a mutex that protects access to Python objects, preventing multiple threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. This lock is necessary mainly because CPython's memory management is not thread-safe. (wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock)

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