No-GIL mode coming for Python

Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by slt2021 on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:11PM (#36916117)

essentially the adoption of No-GIL Python will depend on:

  1. In which version No-GIL will become default option in CPython
  2. When that CPython version will come standard in LTS Linux distro
  3. When all earlier LTS distros will go out of support
  4. When companies switch from outdated to target LTS version of distro

currently quite a lot of companies use python3.6 only because it comes standard with the Ubuntu 14.04.6 which happens to be the oldest LTS version - and companies have habit of migrating from out-of-support LTS version to currently-supported-oldest-LTS

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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by pmontra on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:29AM (#36916934)

A customer on 18.04 just told me to wait another year and migrate their servers to 24.04 so they can stay there until 2029, or will that be 2030? They are on the standard 5 years LTS support, not the extended 10 years one.

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