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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by kelipso on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:43PM (#36916288)
Lol the correct statement is it will get really ugly. Pretty much no question it will be a bigger mess than 2 to 3 transition. Here's hoping my subfield will move to a different language in the meanwhile because I don't want to deal with this shit again.
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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by MarkMarine on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:01PM (#36916415)
All your hopes of GIL free code ruined by a GIL requiring left pad dep buried deep in the dependency tree.
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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by baq on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:39AM (#36918494)
Fortunately Python’s package management is so horrible left pad is not a problem.
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