Pregunta de entrevista de Varonis Systems
How does Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) affect multithreading, and in what scenarios is multithreading still beneficial despite the GIL?
Respuesta de la entrevista
Anónimo
13 may 2025
The GIL allows only one thread to execute Python bytecode at a time, limiting true parallelism for CPU-bound tasks. Multithreading is still useful for I/O-bound tasks like network calls or file I/O, where threads can wait without blocking the interpreter.