Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python
by qbasic_forever on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:53PM
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Yep I fully agree. It's going to ultimately mean 99% of people end up running in old GIL mode with deterministic behavior. Companies will get burned and have to have policies that absolutely under no circumstances will the GIL be disabled in their codebase. A very small handful of highly skilled and funded teams, probably at big companies only, will have the time and tenacity to make their code AND all their dependencies work in a miltithreaded environment without the GIL.
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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:09AM
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I work at a big company. We had probably millions of lines of Python. We migrated to c++ instead of to Python 3.
I'm really struggling to think of a scenario where that makes sense
Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:57AM
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I'm not convinced it's was the right choice either, but I'm not keen on Python, and not sold on Rust. Maybe Zig? I don't know. I personally like Typescript but even I will admit I'm not sure it's the best choice for a large, server-centric company.