GIL is for safety and correctness, not speed.
Python's global interpreter lock was added for single threaded speed and c library integrations, which often can't be used multithreaded
There was some talk about removing it recentlish to improve pythons multithreaded performance and Guido said something along the lines of
> "I'll remove it as long as single threaded performance doesn't suffer"
Which nobody succeeded in
Python's global interpreter lock was added for single threaded speed and c library integrations, which often can't be used multithreaded
There was some talk about removing it recentlish to improve pythons multithreaded performance and Guido said something along the lines of
> "I'll remove it as long as single threaded performance doesn't suffer"
Which nobody succeeded in