diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 310acd1..5fe7066 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ a, b = a[b] = {}, 5 print(dis.dis(f)) ``` -* Multiple Python threads don't run concurrently (yes you heard it right!). It may seem intuitive to spawn several threads and let them execute concurrently, but, because of the Global Interpreter Lock in Python, all you're doing is making your threads execute on the same core turn by turn. To achieve actual parallelization in Python, you might want to use the Python [multiprocessing](https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html) module. +* Multiple Python threads won't run your *Python code* concurrently (yes you heard it right!). It may seem intuitive to spawn several threads and let them execute your Python code concurrently, but, because of the [Global Interpreter Lock](https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock) in Python, all you're doing is making your threads execute on the same core turn by turn. Python threads are good for IO-bound tasks, but to achieve actual parallelization in Python for CPU-bound tasks, you might want to use the Python [multiprocessing](https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html) module. * List slicing with out of the bounds indices throws no errors ```py