No-GIL mode coming for Python

Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by miraculixx on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:27AM (#36917485)

I think this is misreading the PEP, but I am happy to learn otherwise.

If it was like you say there would be no need for the --nogil cli option. And there would be no need to have a discussion, at all, really. Python could just introduce the featuere and enable or disable the gil based on the packages installed and the highest threading mode possible.

Yet that is not what's planned as I read it.

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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by usrbinbash on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:27AM (#36917789)

> If it was like you say there would be no need for the --nogil cli option.

Testing the difference between running it with and without `nogil` without having to install 2 different interpreters.

Testing libraries during transitions.

Simply giving users a choice.

Convenience.

Almost no one uses pre-Go.1.11 (GOPATH instead of Modules) any more for project organisation, and the transition is trivially easy. And yet, the toolchain still reacts to `GO111MODULE=off`.

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