The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

I have worker thread(s) that use the logger. In the main thread, I occasionally need to ask the user to take some action. Which means I need to suppress the logger from actually printing until the ...