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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by bvrmn on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:39PM (#36936276)
A single Go thread still replaces 10 Python threads, speaking very roughly. It's a quite particular narrow set of problems noGIL would solve.
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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by sapiogram on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:51AM (#36954519)
Looks like ML workloads is the primary use case here, no amount of goroutines will help you there as long as the ecosystem doesn't exist.
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