Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
by coldtea on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:52AM
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>Just seems that people want Python to be something other than it is.
Well, if they didn't, we'd still be stuck with Python 1 or 0.1.
Why is the GIL suddenly where Python should keep "being what it is", and not any of those tons of changes, from 0.1 to 3.10?
Especially since the removal of the GIL doesn't change any spirit/essence of Python - just makes it faster.
Python wasn't conceived as "having a GIL" being some essential part of it, it was just a bad tradeoff for implementation convenience made back in the day where common multi-core machines were 20 years in the future...
Well, if they didn't, we'd still be stuck with Python 1 or 0.1.
Why is the GIL suddenly where Python should keep "being what it is", and not any of those tons of changes, from 0.1 to 3.10?
Especially since the removal of the GIL doesn't change any spirit/essence of Python - just makes it faster.
Python wasn't conceived as "having a GIL" being some essential part of it, it was just a bad tradeoff for implementation convenience made back in the day where common multi-core machines were 20 years in the future...