Introduction
Explore how the Python Global Interpreter Lock influences concurrency in multi-threaded and asynchronous programs. Understand the challenges with compute-bound tasks and see practical examples using a web service that computes prime numbers, preparing you for senior engineering interview scenarios.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Introduction
We have already discussed the Global Interpreter Lock and the challenges it presents when writing concurrent applications in Python. Depending on the use case we can either apply a multithreaded approach or an asynchronous one but in either case, we'll need ...