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Re:Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improve... by clyfe on Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:03PM (#2232568)
Does any python implementation have non-GIL threading?
Re:Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improve... by kingkilr on Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:06PM (#2232587)
Both Jython and IronPython. PyPy probably will in the future, however its not a goal at the moment.
Re:Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improve... by tmorgan on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:38PM (#2233619)
pypy also supports stackless style microthreads: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/stackless.html but, yes, system level threads are GIL based.
Re:Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improve... by beagle3 on Friday February 18, 2011 @12:07PM (#2236237)
Also, long ago there was Prothon, which wasn't exacyly python but was very close, and didn't have a GIL. Unfortunately, it seems all source code drops of this disappeared from the earth, though you can still find some mentions e.g. http://blog.ianbicking.org/initial-thoughts-on-prothon.html

I don't remember how Vyper worked, but it might have abolished the GIL too: http://got.net/~landauer/sw/vyper_readme.html