Speaker: Larry Hastings You've heard of Python's ""GIL""... but what is it? What problems does it solve? How does it work? What are the ramifications of its design? Attendees should have a basic knowledge of multithreaded programming. Understanding C is helpful but not required. Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016 and https://github.com/PyCon/2016-slides