Counting CPU Instructions in Python
Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions to print("Hello") in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import seaborn? (more…)
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Bad news first. Python is a poor choice for concurrent programming. A principal reason for this is the ‘Global Interpreter Lock’ or GIL. The GIL ensures that only one thread accesses Python objects at a time, effectively preventing Python from being able … Read more