Pykonik #69: GIL and TBA!

Because of Easter, this time we're meeting on first Thursday of April.

We're back on Politechnika Krakowska, details how to get here are in the sidebar on the right, or in "Location" section below.

This month we're back with our "regular" formula with 2 longer talks with pizza break in-between and a lightning talks session at the very end.

GIL: What's the hassle and... should I care? - Jacek Kołodziej

GIL often appears as a scary, obscure gizmo. Misunderstanding of this aspect of Python may lead to suboptimal architectural choices. I invite you to see my attempt at explaining the GIL and its implications, as well as providing pointers for how to deal with the GIL in specific situations.

There have been (and still are), of course, attempts to get around the GIL - or get rid of it altogether. I hope to give some light to these works.

By providing a comprehensive overview of today's GIL in CPython, this presentation aims to help make better design choices - be it choosing a concurrency/parallelism model, Python implementation to use - or even whether or not to drop Python entirely.

TBA - Robert Urbańczyk

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Location:

Politechnika Krakowska, Budynek Działownia (see the map; detailed instructions are visible when you sign up for the event)

If you have trouble figuring out how to find the correct room check out the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XdS85XOlhdE

Sponsors and Partners

JetBrains – 2x pycharm licenses giveaway during the event

CLUG – pizza, recording and streaming of the meetup