Avoid Python GIL in `write_to`, sorting, Levenshtein

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Avoid Python GIL in `write_to`, sorting, Levenshtein #105

Closed ashvardanian closed 5 months ago

ashvardanian commented 6 months ago

Saving to disk is an IO-intensive operation. Sorting and string alignments are also quite expensive. Unlocking the GIL we can allow multi-threaded Python scripts to perform such operations concurrently, not hurting each other.

ashvardanian commented 5 months ago

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 3.6.8 :tada:

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