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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by paulddraper on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:40AM (#21914561)
> as far as I remember the GIL only affects Python objects. So if you use Numpy for operations, you can avoid the GIL.

Correct.

Threads cannot help Python-heavy code; they can help I/O-heavy or native-heavy code (assuming native code releases the GIL).

Even without multithreading, numpy programming can give amazing speedups. It's the reason why data science Python isn't dead in the water.

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