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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by bjourne on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:07PM (#36649660)
There is no way of knowing whether a Python module is used in multithreaded environments or not. The point is that C extensions that previously worked fine in multithreaded environments probably will not work fine in multithreaded environments with the GIL disabled.
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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by schmeii on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:47AM (#36682659)
That is not true.

If an extension doesn't advertise that it is thread safe, the GIL get activated at runtime so it will work exactly like it does now.

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