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1. Global Interpreter Lock

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   The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is a mutual exclusion mechanism that prevents multiple native threads from executing Python bytecode simultaneously within a single process. Implemented as a core component of CPython, the reference implementation of Python, the GIL is often cited as both a pragmatic design choice and a significant performance limitation in multithreaded Python applications.
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