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by lopuhin 741 days ago
Really nice to see no-GIL Python become closer and closer to reality.
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viega 741 days ago
There's been a no-GIL Python for about a decade, and it's still OSS on BitBucket somewhere with a PSF license (I used it for quite a while), but at the time, the community didn't want to wrestle with some of the issues, like, do you want to forego atomicity for list appends, or do you want to slow them down (Skython took the former route)?

https://lwn.net/Articles/640177/

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d0mine 741 days ago
Jython, IronPython are no-GIL Python.

Their fate shows that GIL is not as important as it might appear at the first glance.

Python is becoming more complicated everyday e.g., with things like PEP-695 Python is starting to resemble C++ (not a good thing). https://discuss.python.org/t/please-consider-delaying-or-eve...

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