Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

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An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

I'm running some simulations using the joblib library. For that, I have some number of parameter combinations, each of which I run 100,000 times. I'd now like to write the result of each simulation to ...