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diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 05863a0..ec23504 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -308,10 +308,10 @@ since it is impossible to detect the termination of alien threads. .. impl-detail:: - Due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, in CPython only one thread + In CPython, due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, only one thread can execute Python code at once (even though certain performance-oriented libraries might overcome this limitation). - If you want your application to make better of use of the computational + If you want your application to make better use of the computational resources of multi-core machines, you are advised to use :mod:`multiprocessing` or :class:`concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`. However, threading is still an appropriate model if you want to run |