Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) restricts a process to running only one thread at a time, preventing true parallel execution on multiple CPU cores. This limitation means multi-threading offers no performance advantage over single-threading for CPU-bound tasks, though multi-processing can provide speedups. GIL exists

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