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by glibgil 4381 days ago
Obviously the GIL was shortsighted, yes. Leave the people out of it. The idea was stupid. There was a reason, but it wasn't a good reason.
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What would you replace it with ?
No GIL.
Your username is apt, but novelty accounts aren't a thing here. What exactly are you hoping to communicate?
My name is Gil. Look at my comment history and apologize.
you need something to allow concurrent access to internal interpreter data structures...
STM or MVar