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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by paulddraper on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:18PM (#36925303)
In Python, race conditions with the GIL will be race conditions without the GIL, and vice versa.

....I believe so.

E.g. there's no plan to make lists, dicts, thread unsafe.

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Re:No-GIL mode coming for Python by kzrdude on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:53AM (#36931164)
But it's going to be much easier to demonstrate data consistency issues and bugs due to threading
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