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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by dontlaugh on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:15PM (#31356239)
Those would have to remain atomic by taking explicit more granular locks.
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Re:Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL by masklinn on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:21PM (#31356306)
Obviously?

But the point is currently they do work, they are thread-safe and they are correct in the strictest sense of the word, per-FAQ: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/library.html#what-kinds-of-glo...

So as the original commenter notes:

> wouldn't removing the GIL cause all sorts of sudden race conditions and regressions in existing python code?

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