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Python's global interpreter lock was added for single threaded speed and c library integrations, which often can't be used multithreaded
There was some talk about removing it recentlish to improve pythons multithreaded performance and Guido said something along the lines of
> "I'll remove it as long as single threaded performance doesn't suffer"
Which nobody succeeded in
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Python's global interpreter lock was added for single threaded speed and c library integrations, which often can't be used multithreaded
There was some talk about removing it recentlish to improve pythons multithreaded performance and Guido said something along the lines of
> "I'll remove it as long as single threaded performance doesn't suffer"
Which nobody succeeded in