[ubernostrum]

I'm familiar with the various attempts to remove the GIL over the years.

The thing is, in the 90s the choices the produced the GIL as it exists were not bad ones; that's why I went to the trouble of explaining how it affects threaded code and why those effects can be considered reasonable tradeoffs for what was known at the time, in implementing threading (without completely breaking the ecosystem of Python + Python extensions, which was already significant even back then).

Of course, knowing what's known today about the directions computing and the use of Python went in, different decisions might end up being made, but at this point it's very difficult (more difficult than people typically expect) to undo them or make different choices.