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by rockasaur 4805 days ago
I'd rather have true threading power than thousands of 3rd party modules.

The modules can be re-written. By removing the GIL, we are giving a definite power boost to the language(applies to ruby too)
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dbecker 4805 days ago
The extremely widespread use of CPython over PyPy suggests that most users feel differently.

Personally, if I had to go without 3rd party modules like numpy and pandas for any length of time, I might just switch to another language.

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rockasaur 4802 days ago
Most people seem to flock to the reference implementation of a language rather than alternatives. Which is why most people use CRuby even though JRuby is faster.

Guido should just take it like a man and accept a pull request to merge PyPy's JIT interpreter into CPython.

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