The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) has historically restricted Python processes to running only one thread at a time, preventing true multi-threaded parallelism on CPU-bound tasks. This limitation exists primarily for thread safety, avoiding race conditions when multiple threads access shared memory. While multi-processing

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