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Re:The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading by cameldrv on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:49PM (#28697300)
The reason why this is true in Python is the GIL. In other languages without a GIL, multiple threads will run on multiple cores and can speed up CPU bound code.
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