python Global Interpreter Lock GIL problem

Question

I want to provide a service on the web that people can test out the performance of an algo, which is written in python and running on the linux machine

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Answer 1

If you are opening each script by invoking a new process; you will not run afoul of the GIL. Each process gets its own interpreter and therefore its own interpreter lock.

Answer 2

The GIL is per-process. If you start multiple python processes, each will have its own GIL that prevents the interpreter(s) in this specific process from running more than one thread at a time. But independent processes can run at the same time.

Also, multiple threads inside one Python process do take turns on running (rather frequently, IIRC once per hundred opcode instructions or a few dozen milliseconds depending on the version), so it's not like the GIL prevents concurrency at all - it just prevents multi-threading.