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To begin , came across this, which I liked: https://archrometects.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/assignment-01-conceptual-architecture-of-google-chrome-archrometects.pdf 

Python Global interpreter lock !

http://www.dabeaz.com/python/UnderstandingGIL.pdf for reference. Amazed. I was falsely under the impression that my python pthreads were speeding things up :S