Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Get started with the free-threaded build of Python 3.13 True multithreading in Python is here at last! Now, you just need to make it work in your programs.

Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time ...

Being the sort of engineer/programmer who occasionally thinks that even programming in assembler is fun, we decided to take a good hard look at whether the simplifying abstractions being provided by ...

The fundamental difficulty in multi-threaded programming was the need to deal with multiple program threads running simultaneously and possibly interacting with each other. Writing a single multi ...

In Python, however, the benefits of threading are diminished by Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). Threaded programming in Python is refreshingly simple, because all internal Python operations ...

AMD has open sourced more than 3,000 routines in its AMD Performance Library for multi-threaded programming. These routines, which will make it easier to build media and other applications for ...

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.