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The GIL is not just why Python threads can't use multiple cores. It is CPython's engineering trade-off among refcounting, the object model, and C extensions.
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Notes on process scheduling triggers, evaluation metrics, and common algorithms such as FCFS, SJF, RR, MLFQ, EDF, and LLF.
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Threads as the basic unit of scheduling, thread control, synchronization with mutexes, condition variables, and semaphores, and ULT vs KLT.
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Notes on concurrency, parallelism, CPU cores, hardware threads, processes, and threads in operating systems.