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Re:Python PEP for Making the GIL Optional Doesn't Get Enough... by jononor on Sunday June 11, 2023 @07:57PM (#36286992)
PEP 684 – A Per-Interpreter GIL https://peps.python.org/pep-0684/
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Re:Python PEP for Making the GIL Optional Doesn't Get Enough... by debugnik on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:11AM (#36370302)
This is a good and necessary step in the right direction, but if I understand correctly interpreters can't share memory directly. So this will unblock some uses cases for embedding Python and for replacing process-level parallelism, but it doesn't yet improve their existing threading model.

Nice to know anyway, I'll keep an eye on how they progress.

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