The GIL

Python has a global lock that has to be accessed by the current running thread as the interpreter is not fully thread safe. This is called the GIL or Global Interpreter Lock.

Since Python 3.13, the core developers of Python have been working on a free-thread implementation …

This weekend, I gave a talk in BangPypers based on the content of the first two articles in this blog related to the memory footprint of Python objects and the optmization of the same.

After the talk, during the interactive sessions, an engineer asked me a very interestng question:

"Doesn't …

In the last article, I took an example of a simple Python class and using it to demo how dynamic the actual memory footprint of a Python object is and how deceptively large it can be.

The hidden cost of __dict__

Let me continue with our Person class to refresh …

Background

Of late, I was exploring Python again after a while and looking at how classes and instances keep state. Let us look at a simple example of a Python class.

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name, age, gender):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.gender = gender

Let me …

After a decade or so of procrastinating, I finally prompted myself to work on my first tech blog. You will see thoughts, content and knowledge from me shared on this platform on a regular basis from here on. Thanks for reading!