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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by mftb on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:27AM (#31349607)
Worker threads[0]. If you don't follow Javascript it's not surprising you hadn't heard about it, it's pretty new. Node also, thanks to v8, pretty much outperforms Python.

[0]https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html

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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by frazbin on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:47AM (#31349736)
worker threads don't share the parent's heap though, right? They can only share state through a binary channel. It's something, but pretty different from traditional pthreads.
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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by mftb on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:02AM (#31349821)
They can use SharedArrayBuffers[0] which wrap shared memory or they can pass ArrayBuffers. Node may not have the shared arrays yet, but the browsers do.

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by ptx on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:05AM (#31351635)
Python has multiprocessing.shared_memory[1] since 3.8 to share arrays between processes, which accomplishes the same thing and circumvents the GIL issue.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_mem...

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