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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by paulryanrogers on Sunday January 24, 2021 @09:52AM (#25892468)
My guess is Python wouldn't have done much better anyway. The GIL and lack of client side support kept it out of a lot of use cases.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by Demiurge on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:23AM (#25892736)
Really? I’ve been using Python for 15 years and never heard anyone say “GIL”. How and what is GIL preventing?
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by stjohnswarts on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#25893682)
It causes issues with running low overhead multithreaded code. I get by with the multiprocessing library, but then again I don't have a lot of threads (10 is the most I've ever needed), some people want to run hundreds of "light threads" depending on the type of programming that you are looking to do.
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Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2 by paulryanrogers on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:29AM (#25892797)
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock
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