What is the global interpreter lock (GIL) in CPython?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1294...

Accepted answer links:
[this video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
[this set of slides]: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf

Answer 3 links:
[here]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInter...

Answer 4 links:
[Python ]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/thre...
[Glossary entry for ]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/glossary.htm...
[CPU bound tasks]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8685...
[Is Python variable assignment atomic?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2291...
[Thread Safety in Python's dictionary]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6953...
[docs for the ]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/mult...
[docs for ]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/conc...
[uses threads instead of processes]: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/conc...
[Multiprocessing vs Threading Python]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3044...
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/2x04m.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_int...
[Why the Global Interpreter Lock?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2656...

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