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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by anacrolix on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:45PM (#36651315)
10 years late. I remember being criticized for avoiding the GIL in some CPython C code in 2012 and I think I stopped contributing to CPython after that. There are (or were back then), curmudgeons trying to hang on to their "safe layer over 90s style C process" Python.

This is a great step forward.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by rmahrt on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:28AM (#36653000)
Well, enjoy the 2020s style machine learning Python, where applications are already full of threading bugs even before this PEP.
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