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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by coldtea on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:49AM (#31350985)
That's just a 2x speed increase.

More than 5x can be achieved with the GIL included (and has been promised, by the new Microsoft Python-speed-up initiative and that Python dev who made a similar proposal).

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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by ivoflipse on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:18AM (#31351253)
That Python dev (Mark Shannon) is part of the Microsoft team :-)
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