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Quiz: The GIL and Picking the Right Primitive

What the GIL actually does, the decision matrix, and how Python 3.13's free-threaded mode changes the landscape.

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Why does Python's GIL prevent threading from speeding up CPU-bound work, but NOT I/O-bound work?

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