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Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with by teaearlgraycold on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:39PM (#40950103)
It's kept behind a flag. Hopefully will be forever.
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Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with by metadat on Friday July 12, 2024 @07:18PM (#40950354)
The article states the goal is to eventually (after some years of working out the major kinks and performance regressions) promote Free-Threaded Python to be the default cPython distribution.
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Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with by stavros on Friday July 12, 2024 @07:04PM (#40950266)
Oh, very interesting, that's a great solution then.
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Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with by geekone on Friday July 12, 2024 @07:16PM (#40950345)
Looks like according to the PEP it may eventually be default in 4-6 releases down the road: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#python-build-modes
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