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by t-vi 1127 days ago
On the other hand, it would fix cases where there are somewhat rare hangs that are hard to reproduce, for example in multithreaded applications embedding Python. A while ago, I hit a deadlock in LibreOffice's Python extension system. I managed to fix it by changing the GIL to the more modern Python API for that, but I never managed to produce a reasonably small test case, so I didn't submit it.