1.2 - What is the GIL?
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What is the GIL?
💡 Hint: Remember, it's for memory safety.
What does concurrency mean?
💡 Hint: Think about tasks waiting at the same time.
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What does the GIL stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about how it provides thread safety.
True or False: The GIL allows true parallelism in CPU-bound tasks.
💡 Hint: Consider the implications for CPU tasks.
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Design a Python application that performs image processing on a large dataset. Discuss how you would handle threading and the GIL’s impact.
💡 Hint: Consider bottlenecks and how multiprocessing can mitigate them.
Explain the trade-offs between using threading versus multiprocessing in a data analysis application.
💡 Hint: Analyze performance impacts for different scenarios.
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