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#16978: merge with 3.3.

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Ezio Melotti 2013-01-18 19:59:13 +02:00
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@ -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