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Re:Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing ... by nijave on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:09PM (#47311934)
It'd be nice if Python std lib had more thread safe primitives/structures (compared to something like Java where there's tons of thread safe data structures)

Imo the GIL was used as an excuse for a long time to avoid building those out.

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Re:Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing ... by liuliu on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:20PM (#47314884)
> It'd be nice if Python std lib had more thread safe primitives/structures (compared to something like Java where there's tons of thread safe data structures)

Hence why basic Python structures under free-threaded Python are all thread-safe structures, and explains why they are slower than GIL-variant.

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