Practice What is the GIL? - 1.2 | Chapter 7: Concurrency and Parallelism in Python | Python Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is the GIL?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember, it's for memory safety.

Question 2

Easy

What does concurrency mean?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about tasks waiting at the same time.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does the GIL stand for?

  • Global Integer Lock
  • Global Interpreter Lock
  • Global Initiation Lock

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how it provides thread safety.

Question 2

True or False: The GIL allows true parallelism in CPU-bound tasks.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the implications for CPU tasks.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Design a Python application that performs image processing on a large dataset. Discuss how you would handle threading and the GIL’s impact.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider bottlenecks and how multiprocessing can mitigate them.

Question 2

Explain the trade-offs between using threading versus multiprocessing in a data analysis application.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Analyze performance impacts for different scenarios.

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