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Re:Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year by schneems on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:21AM (#24338536)
> JRuby doesn't have a GIL

Neither does CRuby! It's been the GVL since YARV was merged ;)

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Re:Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year by eregon on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:09PM (#24344826)
It's exactly the same thing though, isn't it? I use both terms interchangeably. And it seems the term GIL is better known than GVL.
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