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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python by zardeh on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:10PM (#13320577)
Pypy still has a GIL. GIL-free seems to be one of the explicit goals of this project.
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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python by poooogles on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:18PM (#13320648)
>Pypy still has a GIL.

Not strictly true, http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/stm.html. In general for the main project however, this is true.

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Re:Grumpy: Go running Python by zardeh on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:01PM (#13321060)
Pypy still has a gil. Pypy is experimenting with non-GILed versions, and in fact there are people actively working to remove the GIL from pypy. But the same can be said of cpython (the gilectomy), and yet I don't think that you'd say "not strictly true" to "cpython still has a GIL".
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