I didn't know that. On 20 May 2013 12:10, "Dave Angel" <da...@davea.name> wrote: > Are you making function calls, using system libraries, or creating or deleting any objects? All of these use the GIL because they use common data structures shared among all threads. At the lowest level, creating an object requires locked access to the memory manager. > > > Don't forget, the GIL gets used much more for Python internals than it does for the visible stuff.
I did not know that. It's both interesting and somehow obvious, although I didn't know it yet.
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