GIL
See also: gil and Gil
English
Noun
GIL (plural GILs)
- (programming) Initialism of global interpreter lock.
- 2020, Caleb Hattingh, Using Asyncio in Python, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 7:
- Since Asyncio is single-threaded (almost by definition), it is unaffected by the GIL, but it cannot benefit from multiple CPU cores either.