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		ahepp on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry I thought parallelism was pretty limited in python due to the GIL (global interpreter lock, iirc)?

chaostheory on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

Thread based concurrency is limited and near pointless. Parallelism, ie using multiple cores in separate processes, is not

germandiago on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

C extensions can help. Some libraries use native wrapped code and that acceleratws things.

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